Guest Hugh G. Johnson Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 I recently put together a new Vista Ult. box. Unfortunately soon after it got infected with a strain of Vundo, which I think I've erraticated, but somehow the machine still seems compramised. I can FTP, Email, Telnet with no problems, but once I open a web browser the wait for pages to load is painful. I have ClamWin as my main anti-virus software - I"ve scanned in SAFE MODE memory and all partitions And I've ran all these programs in SAFE MODE numerous times to no avail Spybot S&D Ad-aware 2007 Free Super Anti-spyware Windows Defender Malicious Software Removal HijackThis (nothing of concern comes up) Replaced Hosts file Soon after I run these programs web browsing is zippy for a little bit, but then strarts crawling. Images or ads won't load and then pages time out. I'm not sure what else I can check to see what is going on. Other machines on same network work fine. Thanks. Hugh Quote
Guest DL Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 So what happens if you uninstall your AV? "Hugh G. Johnson" <HughNOTGNOTJohnson@NOTcomcast.net> wrote in message news:OnA19zzyIHA.4772@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...<span style="color:blue"> >I recently put together a new Vista Ult. box. Unfortunately soon after it >got infected with a strain of Vundo, which I think I've erraticated, but >somehow the machine still seems compramised. I can FTP, Email, Telnet with >no problems, but once I open a web browser the wait for pages to load is >painful. > > I have ClamWin as my main anti-virus software - I"ve scanned in SAFE MODE > memory and all partitions > And I've ran all these programs in SAFE MODE numerous times to no avail > Spybot S&D > Ad-aware 2007 Free > Super Anti-spyware > Windows Defender > Malicious Software Removal > HijackThis (nothing of concern comes up) > Replaced Hosts file > > Soon after I run these programs web browsing is zippy for a little bit, > but then strarts crawling. Images or ads won't load and then pages time > out. I'm not sure what else I can check to see what is going on. Other > machines on same network work fine. > > Thanks. > > Hugh </span> Quote
Guest Hugh G. Johnson Posted June 11, 2008 Posted June 11, 2008 Not sure. Haven't tried. However, Clam isn't real-time protection, so not sure what difference it would make.... Hugh "DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message news:uOSrSF1yIHA.4952@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...<span style="color:blue"> > So what happens if you uninstall your AV? > > "Hugh G. Johnson" <HughNOTGNOTJohnson@NOTcomcast.net> wrote in message > news:OnA19zzyIHA.4772@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...<span style="color:green"> >>I recently put together a new Vista Ult. box. Unfortunately soon after it >>got infected with a strain of Vundo, which I think I've erraticated, but >>somehow the machine still seems compramised. I can FTP, Email, Telnet with >>no problems, but once I open a web browser the wait for pages to load is >>painful. >> >> I have ClamWin as my main anti-virus software - I"ve scanned in SAFE MODE >> memory and all partitions >> And I've ran all these programs in SAFE MODE numerous times to no avail >> Spybot S&D >> Ad-aware 2007 Free >> Super Anti-spyware >> Windows Defender >> Malicious Software Removal >> HijackThis (nothing of concern comes up) >> Replaced Hosts file >> >> Soon after I run these programs web browsing is zippy for a little bit, >> but then strarts crawling. Images or ads won't load and then pages time >> out. I'm not sure what else I can check to see what is going on. Other >> machines on same network work fine. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Hugh</span> > > </span> Quote
Guest Mick Murphy Posted June 11, 2008 Posted June 11, 2008 I have no probs using the programs below. Security Programs that I have installed, . Vista’s Firewall works very well. http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html Avast Anti-Virus is Vista compatible (32bit and 64bit Versions), FREE, auto-updating, and a low resources user of your computer. And, only have 1(one) Anti-Virus installed / running on your computer at any one time.. Conflicts may occur if you have more than 1(one). http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html Spybot Search & Destroy 1.5.2 is a very good, FREE Anti-Spyware Program. Download, install, update, and immunize your System with it. Then SCAN with it. Update it, and scan your System once a fortnight. http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html SpywareBlaster 4.0 is a non-intrusive, FREE Anti-Spyware Program that runs in the background (no scanning by you!). Update it once a fortnight, and let it do its work in the background! -- Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia "Hugh G. Johnson" wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > Not sure. Haven't tried. However, Clam isn't real-time protection, so not > sure what difference it would make.... > > Hugh > > > "DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message > news:uOSrSF1yIHA.4952@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...<span style="color:green"> > > So what happens if you uninstall your AV? > > > > "Hugh G. Johnson" <HughNOTGNOTJohnson@NOTcomcast.net> wrote in message > > news:OnA19zzyIHA.4772@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...<span style="color:darkred"> > >>I recently put together a new Vista Ult. box. Unfortunately soon after it > >>got infected with a strain of Vundo, which I think I've erraticated, but > >>somehow the machine still seems compramised. I can FTP, Email, Telnet with > >>no problems, but once I open a web browser the wait for pages to load is > >>painful. > >> > >> I have ClamWin as my main anti-virus software - I"ve scanned in SAFE MODE > >> memory and all partitions > >> And I've ran all these programs in SAFE MODE numerous times to no avail > >> Spybot S&D > >> Ad-aware 2007 Free > >> Super Anti-spyware > >> Windows Defender > >> Malicious Software Removal > >> HijackThis (nothing of concern comes up) > >> Replaced Hosts file > >> > >> Soon after I run these programs web browsing is zippy for a little bit, > >> but then strarts crawling. Images or ads won't load and then pages time > >> out. I'm not sure what else I can check to see what is going on. Other > >> machines on same network work fine. > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> Hugh</span> > > > > </span> > > </span> Quote
Guest Charlie Tame Posted June 11, 2008 Posted June 11, 2008 Hugh G. Johnson wrote:<span style="color:blue"> > I recently put together a new Vista Ult. box. Unfortunately soon after > it got infected with a strain of Vundo, which I think I've erraticated, > but somehow the machine still seems compramised. I can FTP, Email, > Telnet with no problems, but once I open a web browser the wait for > pages to load is painful. > > I have ClamWin as my main anti-virus software - I"ve scanned in SAFE > MODE memory and all partitions > And I've ran all these programs in SAFE MODE numerous times to no avail > Spybot S&D > Ad-aware 2007 Free > Super Anti-spyware > Windows Defender > Malicious Software Removal > HijackThis (nothing of concern comes up) > Replaced Hosts file > > Soon after I run these programs web browsing is zippy for a little bit, > but then strarts crawling. Images or ads won't load and then pages time > out. I'm not sure what else I can check to see what is going on. Other > machines on same network work fine. > > Thanks. > > Hugh</span> When you say "A web browser" do you mean IE or do you have an alternative? You could check all your IE settings and disable any add ons you find, or maybe simpler try installing Firefox and see if things improve. If something has attacked IE then using another browser should establish whether the problem is traffic flow per-se or a broken IE. I am not sure why running any of these programs should give you a temporary improvement that goes away after a time. I guess the other possibility is some kind of memory leak, or perhaps a "Temp" folder setting too small. Once this slowdown happens do other things then slow down or are you pretty sure that other things continue as normal? Quote
Guest Robinb Posted June 17, 2008 Posted June 17, 2008 try uninstalling ad aware 2007 I found it made my browser go very slow uninstalled it- it pipped up robin "Hugh G. Johnson" <HughNOTGNOTJohnson@NOTcomcast.net> wrote in message news:OnA19zzyIHA.4772@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...<span style="color:blue"> >I recently put together a new Vista Ult. box. Unfortunately soon after it >got infected with a strain of Vundo, which I think I've erraticated, but >somehow the machine still seems compramised. I can FTP, Email, Telnet with >no problems, but once I open a web browser the wait for pages to load is >painful. > > I have ClamWin as my main anti-virus software - I"ve scanned in SAFE MODE > memory and all partitions > And I've ran all these programs in SAFE MODE numerous times to no avail > Spybot S&D > Ad-aware 2007 Free > Super Anti-spyware > Windows Defender > Malicious Software Removal > HijackThis (nothing of concern comes up) > Replaced Hosts file > > Soon after I run these programs web browsing is zippy for a little bit, > but then strarts crawling. Images or ads won't load and then pages time > out. I'm not sure what else I can check to see what is going on. Other > machines on same network work fine. > > Thanks. > > Hugh </span> Quote
Guest CarolinaFaithful Posted June 18, 2008 Posted June 18, 2008 Hugh,have you tried to use a registry cleaner? The vundo might have monkeyed with your registry before you got rid of it. I also suggest that you post your HijackThis log here 'HiJack This Logs' (http://forum.tweaks.com/forum/Forum29-1.aspx) I'm most certain they can get you right. -- CarolinaFaithful Your knowledge is appreciated. One can never learn too much. Quote
Guest The A Team Posted June 26, 2008 Posted June 26, 2008 Spybot S&D has a useful function that tweaks the hosts file which has the lovely effect of preventing spyware from installing itself on your computer as well as blocking most internet ads. The slowness you report is because your browser still tries to connect and load the ads (many of which are completely benign). If you have the status bar active, you'll see ad.doubleclick.com most often when your browser is clunking along. Programs like eDexter can usually help by loading a generic image in the place of ads, but I'm having trouble finding a way to apply this to Spybot. Some of the other programs you use probably tinker with the hosts file too. It can get a bit confusing. -- The A Team Quote
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