DrBaltar

Hi everyone, my laptop is driving me crazy, and I could do with some advice. I have a broadband connection, but you wouldnt know it, the amount of time it takes to load most internet pages. Some websites no longer want to load, and until I changed from Internet Explorer to Firefox, I was being bombarded by popup windows.

I thought I had probably downloaded some sort of trojan, spyware or some such, so I got myself a copy of counterspy. After cleaning the laptop up (the programme did notice trojans etc) I have noticed no difference whatsoever. If I attempt a google search, it just seems to 'sit there'. Most of the sites that don't want to load are shops, such as Play.

Anyone know what I can do to get the machine running smoothly again?

One more thing: a major symptom is that my 'automatic updates' are turned off. Every time I try to turn them back on, they are switched off again... worrying!