[btech]

Hi. I am working on a pc for a friend of my who's main complaint was the computer going very slow. That is an understatement!! I have ran a virus scan and came up with 0 files infected with AVG. Removed some spyware that was detected with a free spyware scanner. Found the following items in the program files in the All Programs area from start: Gain, Dashbar, Mailskinner. What are these programs? There could possibly be more, just not exactly sure all of the places I should be looking.

Windows XP OS. It only had 128mb of ram and I added another 128 which seemed to make clicking a program a little quicker to open.

This machine has two users assigned to it. The second user gets the following error of: EGDACCESS_1058.DLL when it is starting up.

I have looked in Add or Remove Programs and everything in there looks ok. I did not see the names for the above Gain or Dashbar but Mailskinner is in Add Remove.

I don't have this pc connected to the internet right now. I will later, just wanted to see if I could remove as much junk as possible before hand.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Thank you.

 

[btech]

Oh, another question regarding this same computer. They are using the McAfee Security Center which includes Virus Scan, Personal Firewall Plus and Privacy Service <--not sure what this is, but no Spam Killer. Are there any other security installs that you would recommend adding to this machine? Anti-Spyware and anything else needed. What is compatible with McAfee?

Thank you!

 

[btech]

Hi. I installed AVG to scan the machine since I was having no luck with the McAfee. I also have ad-aware, spybot s&d and another spyware that I ran and each one found something different.

I've always heard that having two virus scanners is not a good thing to do, so I will uninstall the AVG since the McAfee is running now. How about the other spyware programs? Can I leave them for added protection?

The machine only had 128mb of ram which I was really surprised. I added another 128 and I could see a big difference in speed and will suggest that he upgrades that even more.

Thanks for your help!