Take a look? [RESOLVED]

I have bad drivers, if you think that might be the cause of it

I'm having quite some difficulty locating where to locate and update for these, though.

I updated my SFX card driver earlier, but that's all I could find.

VIA Bus Master IDE Controller
Wireless-G PCI Adapter #2
VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter
VIA SATA RAID Controller

All of those have bad or out of date drivers. Will they affect anything?

It may well be that you are getting driver incompatability, what is your video card

Plus you do have some unessential itmes running at start

My Video card is an ATi card: Radeon X1050

The latest driver for your card is here http://game.amd.com/...p=xp/radeonx-xp

And the VIA drivers are here http://www.viaarena....I...&CatID=1070

Try that and let me know how you get on

I have installed them both but have made no progress unfortunately

Can you recap on the current status of your problem just so I can see where to go from here

My internet browser(s) operate terribly slow, my computer runs every program with a diverse and random amount of lag, games are virtually un-playable, and any program that uses the internet runs like I'm on dial-up

Try disabling these noe essentila programmes via Hijackthis - reboot and see what that does

Please re-open HiJackThis and scan. Check the boxes next to all the entries listed below.

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [VTTrayp] VTtrayp.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [VTTimer] VTTimer.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [StartCCC] "C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static\CLIStart.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SoundMan] SOUNDMAN.EXE
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [RCSystemTray] C:\Program Files\Max Registry Cleaner\MaxRCSystemTray.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [RCAutoLiveUpdate] C:\Program Files\Max Registry Cleaner\MaxLiveUpdateRC.exe -AUTO
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [iTunesHelper] "C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [IPHSend] C:\Program Files\Common Files\AOL\IPHSend\IPHSend.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [InCD] C:\Program Files\Ahead\InCD\InCD.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [IMJPMIG8.1] "C:\WINDOWS\IME\imjp8_1\IMJPMIG.EXE" /Spoil /RemAdvDef /Migration32
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] "C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03\bin\jusched.exe"
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [DW4] "C:\Program Files\The Weather Channel FW\Desktop Weather\DesktopWeather.exe"
O4 - Startup: Trillian.lnk = C:\Program Files\Trillian\trillian.exe


Now close all windows other than HiJackThis, then click Fix Checked. Close HiJackThis. Reboot

Let me know if that helps

PC/Internet speed & Software FPS Insignificantly overall better

Next could you open task manager and see which process is using the most cpu cycles, while you are experiencing a slow down

Nothing is going above 5 cycles, except firefox which I close when its not being used.
Task manager, wscntfy, explorer, system, and csrss are the only things I see going above 2-3 occasionally.
And if I'm playing a game It's up to about.. 9-10

And system idle process is at 78-99 of course

I am afraid we are now going beyond my expertise

I would recommend that you re-post in the XP section http://www.geekstogo...2003-NT-f5.html as the technical experts are there. I am sorry that I could not provide a definitive solution to your problem

For the malware side

Now the best part of the day ----- Your log now appears clean

Double click OTMoveIt once again and you should see a CleanUp! button, press that button, you may get prompted by your firewall that OTMoveIt wants to contact the internet, allow this, a cleanup.txt will be downloaded, a message dialog will ask you if you want to proceed with the cleanup process, click Yes. This will delete all the tools you have downloaded plus itself



Now to get you off to a good start we will re-set your restore points so that all the bad stuff is gone for good. Then if you need to restore at some stage you will be clean. There are several ways to reset your your restore point but this is my method:

1. Select Start > All Programs > Accessories > System tools > System Restore.
2. On the dialogue box that appears select Create a Restore Point
3. Click NEXT
4. Enter a name e.g. Clean
5. Click CREATE

You now have a clean restore point, to get rid of the bad ones:

1. Select Start > All Programs > Accessories > System tools > Disk Cleanup.
2. In the Drop down box that appears select your main drive e.g. C
3. Click OK
4. The System will do some calculation and the display a dialogue box with TABS
5. Select the More Options Tab.
6. At the bottom will be a system restore box with a CLEANUP button click this
7. Accept the Warning and select OK again, the program will close and you are done



Now that you are clean, to help protect your computer in the future I recommend that you get the following free program:

• SpywareBlaster to help prevent spyware from installing in the first place.

It is critical to have both a firewall and anti virus to protect your system and to keep them updated.

To keep your operating system up to date visit

• Microsoft Windows Update

To learn more about how to protect yourself while on the internet read this article by Tony Klien: So how did I get infected in the first place?


Keep safe

Thanks for helping with malware and for all your time.. I'm gonna repost in the XP section.


~Oni

Sorry I couldn't take you to a conclussion