Problem Description
All the sudden yesterday my XP laptop started running at a glacial pace, for no apparent reason. The fan runs continuously, the processor activity is high (20-100%) without anything running. Rebooting doesn't help. When I access the hd from another machine on the network it seems to write normally. The machine boots normally, but as soon as the desktop appears it starts to bog waaaaay down. Not much disk activity, no network activity, but the processor and fan are running constantly. Just opening a drop-down menu is a several-second wait. Everything works, just painfully slowly.
Basic Info
I have a 2 year old dell Inspiron 8600 laptop running win xp sp3, 2 gb ram, 80 gb hd with 12 gb free. I have Kapersky antivirus, hardware firewall on a network (software firewalls in kapersky and windows turned off). It's a work machine with only one game on it (installed a year ago). I run mostly biz software -- office, adobe creative suite, etc.
What I've tried- Cleaned out the fan and vents as best I could without taking the whole thing apart
- ran a virus scan -- nothing
- Downloaded and Ran malwarebytes -- it found one trojan horse and removed it, but that didn't seem to fix anything
- I went back to a restore point several days ago, and it said there were no changes so it couldn't restore anything
- first turned off, then tried Reinstalling windows update -- some posts indicated that might be the problem. No change.
- Removed all temp files
- Started machine in diagnostic mode without all the startup items, and it still ran just as slow
- Found I still had an old norton live update on the machine and removed it
Recent activity (in the last 2-3 days before this happened)- Deleted a bunch of files to create hd space
- A sound driver disappeared and I had to reinstall it
- Added two new computers (one brand new and one with a clean OS install and hd reformat) to network
- Had problems with an acrobat 8 update -- crashed in mid update. The program ran fine, but I ended up deleting the program to see if that was the problem (no joy) and have yet to reinstall it
Installed cobain backup (shareware), it worked fine for a few days before this happened. Have since uninstalled -- no help
Here's the DDS log -- the gmer log is attached. I have hijack on the machine -- if you want that just ask.
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mRun: [dla] c:\windows\system32\dla\tfswctrl.exe
mRun: [Cobian Backup 9] "c:\program files\cobian backup 9\Cobian.exe"
mRun: [ccApp] "c:\program files\common files\symantec shared\ccApp.exe"
mRun: [Apoint] c:\program files\apoint\Apoint.exe
mRun: [Adobe Version Cue CS2] "c:\program files\adobe\adobe version cue cs2\controlpanel\VersionCueCS2Tray.exe"
dRun: [swg] c:\program files\google\googletoolbarnotifier\GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe
StartupFolder: c:\docume~1\alluse~1\startm~1\programs\startup\adobeg~1.lnk - c:\program files\common files\adobe\calibration\Adobe Gamma Loader.exe
IE: Add to Anti-Banner - c:\program files\kaspersky lab\kaspersky internet security 7.0\ie_banner_deny.htm
IE: Convert to existing PDF - c:\program files\adobe\adobe acrobat 7.0\acrobat\AcroIEFavClient.dll/AcroIEAppend.html
IE: E&xport to Microsoft Excel - c:\progra~1\micros~4\office12\EXCEL.EXE/3000
IE: {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - %windir%\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe
IE: {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - c:\program files\messenger\msmsgs.exe
IE: {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - {CAFEEFAC-0016-0000-0007-ABCDEFFEDCBC} - c:\program files\java\jre1.6.0_07\bin\ssv.dll
IE: {1F460357-8A94-4D71-9CA3-AA4ACF32ED8E} - {85E0B171-04FA-11D1-B7DA-00A0C90348D6} - c:\program files\kaspersky lab\kaspersky internet security 7.0\SCIEPlgn.dll
IE: {2670000A-7350-4f3c-8081-5663EE0C6C49} - {48E73304-E1D6-4330-914C-F5F514E3486C} - c:\progra~1\micros~4\office12\ONBttnIE.dll
IE: {92780B25-18CC-41C8-B9BE-3C9C571A8263} - {FF059E31-CC5A-4E2E-BF3B-96E929D65503} - c:\progra~1\micros~4\office12\REFIEBAR.DLL
IE: {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - %windir%\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe
IE: {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - c:\program files\messenger\msmsgs.exe
Handler: lbxfile - {56831180-F115-11d2-B6AA-00104B2B9943} - c:\program files\libronix dls\system\FileProt.dll
Handler: lbxres - {24508F1B-9E94-40EE-9759-9AF5795ADF52} - c:\program files\libronix dls\system\ResProt.dll
Handler: skype4com - {FFC8B962-9B40-4DFF-9458-1830C7DD7F5D} - c:\progra~1\common~1\skype\SKYPE4~1.DLL
Notify: klogon - c:\windows\system32\klogon.dll
AppInit_DLLs: c:\progra~1\kasper~1\kasper~1.0\adialhk.dll
SSODL: WPDShServiceObj - {AAA288BA-9A4C-45B0-95D7-94D524869DB5} - c:\windows\system32\WPDShServiceObj.dll
============= SERVICES / DRIVERS ===============
R0 kl1;Kl1;c:\windows\system32\drivers\kl1.sys [2007-4-28 112144]
R1 klif;Klif;\??\c:\windows\system32\drivers\klif.sys [2007-6-27 194320]
R3 klim5;Kaspersky Anti-Virus NDIS Filter;c:\windows\system32\drivers\klim5.sys [2007-4-4 24344]
S3 EraserUtilRebootDrv;EraserUtilRebootDrv;\??\c:\program files\common files\symantec shared\eengine\EraserUtilRebootDrv.sys []
=============== Created Last 30 ================
2008-12-03 15:05 250 a------- c:\windows\gmer.ini
2008-12-03 09:36 <DIR> --d----- c:\docume~1\tony\applic~1\Malwarebytes
2008-12-03 09:35 15,504 a------- c:\windows\system32\drivers\mbam.sys
2008-12-03 09:35 38,496 a------- c:\windows\system32\drivers\mbamswissarmy.sys
2008-12-03 09:35 <DIR> --d----- c:\docume~1\alluse~1\applic~1\Malwarebytes
2008-12-03 09:35 <DIR> --d----- c:\program files\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
2008-12-03 09:06 <DIR> --d----- c:\windows\pss
2008-12-02 19:12 <DIR> --d----- c:\docume~1\alluse~1\applic~1\AcrobatInstall
2008-11-29 16:00 <DIR> --d----- c:\program files\Cobian Backup 9
2008-11-12 08:59 455,296 -c------ c:\windows\system32\dllcache\mrxsmb.sys
2008-11-12 08:58 1,106,944 -c------ c:\windows\system32\dllcache\msxml3.dll
==================== Find3M ====================
2008-12-03 13:22 <DIR> --d----- c:\docume~1\alluse~1\applic~1\Kaspersky Lab
2008-12-03 13:07 <DIR> --d----- c:\program files\Symantec
2008-12-02 13:31 72,062 a------- c:\windows\system32\nvModes.dat
2008-11-29 15:23 <DIR> --d----- c:\docume~1\alluse~1\applic~1\RetroExp
2008-10-16 14:06 268,648 a------- c:\windows\system32\mucltui.dll
2008-10-16 14:06 208,744 a------- c:\windows\system32\muweb.dll
2008-09-30 16:43 1,286,152 a------- c:\windows\system32\msxml4.dll
2008-09-15 13:51 77,423 a------- c:\windows\pchealth\helpctr\offlinecache\index.dat
2008-09-15 07:12 1,846,400 a------- c:\windows\system32\win32k.sys
2008-09-09 20:14 1,307,648 -------- c:\windows\system32\msxml6.dll
2008-03-25 12:46 <DIR> --d----- c:\docume~1\tony\applic~1\Intuit
2008-01-04 16:48 <DIR> --d----- c:\docume~1\alluse~1\applic~1\Applications
2007-12-22 18:50 <DIR> --d----- c:\docume~1\alluse~1\applic~1\Symantec
2007-09-06 19:39 <DIR> --d----- c:\docume~1\tony\applic~1\Steinberg
2007-04-02 10:43 <DIR> --d----- c:\docume~1\alluse~1\applic~1\Intuit
2007-03-08 14:22 <DIR> --d----- c:\docume~1\tony\applic~1\Hemera
2006-12-19 09:04 <DIR> --d----- c:\docume~1\tony\applic~1\Libronix DLS
2006-12-19 09:04 <DIR> --d----- c:\docume~1\alluse~1\applic~1\Libronix DLS
2006-12-14 10:26 <DIR> --d----- c:\docume~1\tony\applic~1\Intel
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