Computer OK or not?

hydroplant · 03-04-2009, 01:08 PM

My computer is about two months old. I was really fast when I first used it, but now it isn't very fast. It takes about 10sec. to open firefox or IE. I have downloaded several programs via torrent (I know, no more of that!). I had some type of malware/virus about a month ago and did a system restore. Now my computer has been running slow again. Every few day I get redirected to a site to download "Antivirus 360" I think was the name. I think only happens on IE. I use norton 360 2.5. I just checked the "view statistics" feature the other day and was surprised to see that norton had blocked 3 viruses, 17 malicious software programs and 211 intrusion attempts. I decided to download and install the comercial keylogger "superspypro" to see if norton would pick it up and it didn't. So since I knew there may have been other malware I insttalled counterspy and on my first scan, which took 245 minutes, found trojan-uploader.bzw and behaveslike.dos.virus, plus the keylogger.

Now first, what can I do to further improve security(besides no p2p), and second what can I do to speed up the pc.

I have tuneuputilities 2009 installed and have done registry clean, dskchk, delete temp files, limited startup apps, and followed all of its speed recomendations. Anyone know anything that I should do? A little help would be very much appreciated. I tried to install dds, but says it doesnt support my os. Also ran your malware scan gmer before installing counterspy, found nothing. Thanks

OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Version 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name KEN-PC
System Manufacturer Gateway
System Model DX4200-09
System Type x64-based PC
Processor AMD Phenom(tm) 9100e Quad-Core Processor, 1800 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 7B3P091G, 8/6/2008
SMBIOS Version 2.5
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6001.18000"
User Name ken-PC\Jesse
Time Zone US Mountain Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 3.75 GB
Available Physical Memory 1.91 GB
Total Virtual Memory 7.71 GB
Available Virtual Memory 5.81 GB
Page File Space 4.04 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

alpenadiver · 03-04-2009, 03:16 PM

Here's some info on the "Anti-Virus 360" I would download malwarebytes, and run it. I'm personally not a big fan of any Symantec products nothing but bloat ware, it will bring a "fast" machine to a crawl. I run AVG on all computers, and also run a modified host file, plus malwarebytes, and spybot search and destroy
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/malw...-antivirus-360
http://www.malwarebytes.org
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

You need to remove your trojans, malware, and virus's then your computer will be as fast as new

**Glaswegian** · 03-04-2009, 03:21 PM

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hydroplant · 03-05-2009, 03:22 PM

Just what you said alp. After doing some reading here in tsf, I did the hosts file thing, also unistalled counterspy trial(wanted something free) and got spyblaster and mbam. mbam found several vundu in registry and a couple other things. The hosts file replacement- I was just supposed to "send to" replace the old hosts file with the new file also named host file, right? Seems like at least one of those things worked though cause my machine is faster and I am not constantly hearing my computer make those thinking noises.

03-04-2009, 01:08 PM	#1 (permalink)
hydroplant Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 48 OS: windows vista sp1	Computer OK or not? My computer is about two months old. I was really fast when I first used it, but now it isn't very fast. It takes about 10sec. to open firefox or IE. I have downloaded several programs via torrent (I know, no more of that!). I had some type of malware/virus about a month ago and did a system restore. Now my computer has been running slow again. Every few day I get redirected to a site to download "Antivirus 360" I think was the name. I think only happens on IE. I use norton 360 2.5. I just checked the "view statistics" feature the other day and was surprised to see that norton had blocked 3 viruses, 17 malicious software programs and 211 intrusion attempts. I decided to download and install the comercial keylogger "superspypro" to see if norton would pick it up and it didn't. So since I knew there may have been other malware I insttalled counterspy and on my first scan, which took 245 minutes, found trojan-uploader.bzw and behaveslike.dos.virus, plus the keylogger. Now first, what can I do to further improve security(besides no p2p), and second what can I do to speed up the pc. I have tuneuputilities 2009 installed and have done registry clean, dskchk, delete temp files, limited startup apps, and followed all of its speed recomendations. Anyone know anything that I should do? A little help would be very much appreciated. I tried to install dds, but says it doesnt support my os. Also ran your malware scan gmer before installing counterspy, found nothing. Thanks OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium Version 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001 Other OS Description Not Available OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name KEN-PC System Manufacturer Gateway System Model DX4200-09 System Type x64-based PC Processor AMD Phenom(tm) 9100e Quad-Core Processor, 1800 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s) BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 7B3P091G, 8/6/2008 SMBIOS Version 2.5 Windows Directory C:\Windows System Directory C:\Windows\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2 Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6001.18000" User Name ken-PC\Jesse Time Zone US Mountain Standard Time Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB Total Physical Memory 3.75 GB Available Physical Memory 1.91 GB Total Virtual Memory 7.71 GB Available Virtual Memory 5.81 GB Page File Space 4.04 GB Page File C:\pagefile.sys

03-04-2009, 03:16 PM	#2 (permalink)
alpenadiver Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Alpena, Michigan Posts: 346 OS: Windows XP Pro, Windows 7 My System	Re: Computer OK or not? Here's some info on the "Anti-Virus 360" I would download malwarebytes, and run it. I'm personally not a big fan of any Symantec products nothing but bloat ware, it will bring a "fast" machine to a crawl. I run AVG on all computers, and also run a modified host file, plus malwarebytes, and spybot search and destroy http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/malw...-antivirus-360 http://www.malwarebytes.org http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm You need to remove your trojans, malware, and virus's then your computer will be as fast as new

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03-05-2009, 03:22 PM	#4 (permalink)
hydroplant Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 48 OS: windows vista sp1	Re: Computer OK or not? Just what you said alp. After doing some reading here in tsf, I did the hosts file thing, also unistalled counterspy trial(wanted something free) and got spyblaster and mbam. mbam found several vundu in registry and a couple other things. The hosts file replacement- I was just supposed to "send to" replace the old hosts file with the new file also named host file, right? Seems like at least one of those things worked though cause my machine is faster and I am not constantly hearing my computer make those thinking noises.