VERY slow computer

[Tom Brown]

I have read many of the other messages about slow computers and I have
installed and run the following programs:

Spysweeper
AdAware
Spybot Search & Destroy
CWShredder

I use Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal as my AV program.

But, my computer seems to have a mind of it's own some times. I can barely
use it because it takes MINUTES to get it to do anything .... like refresh
the screen. BTW, I am on a Dell Pentium 4 laptop with 512 Ram. I am using
XP Home, SP2.

I find the disk "churning" and when I check the Processes in Windows Task
Manager, I find one program which seems to be hogging my system. It is
MSIMN.EXE.

Here are some of the numbers.

CPU Time: 1:05.42
Mem Useage 401,000K
VM Size 533,832K
I/O Reads 370,598
I/O Writes 1998

This seems like a lot of activity for a program that I don't even recognize.
Any comments will be appreciated.

Tom

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Please try the following link:

http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
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[R. McCarty]

That's Outlook Express - Are you using Instant Messenger service ?
Or perhaps you've got a Trojan Horse that is using your system as a
Spam Bot.

 

[Guest]

Information about msimn.exe file
File: msimn.exe
Name: Outlook Express
Product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company: Microsoft Corporation
BTW, Dell also has a 42kb driver support by that name.

 

[S.Sengupta]

SEE:-
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm

regards,
ssg MS-MVP

 

[Guest]

have you tried going to start/run/type in msconfig/click ok/go to startup
button/see if there is anything there that you dont need to have starting
up/if you stop anything
from loading the next time you start computer it will say you have changed
system config just click dont show again..

 

[Tom Brown]

Well, I think I have ruled out the Spybot or Trojan Horse by running all the
software I listed on the original email.

Yes, I do use AIM and Yahoo Instant Messenger. Could that be causing this?

Thanks,

Tom

 

[JerryMouse]

I have read many of the other messages about slow computers and I have
installed and run the following programs:

Spysweeper
AdAware
Spybot Search & Destroy
CWShredder

I use Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal as my AV program.

But, my computer seems to have a mind of it's own some times. I can
barely use it because it takes MINUTES to get it to do anything ....
like refresh the screen. BTW, I am on a Dell Pentium 4 laptop with
512 Ram. I am using XP Home, SP2.

I find the disk "churning" and when I check the Processes in Windows
Task Manager, I find one program which seems to be hogging my system.
It is MSIMN.EXE.

Here are some of the numbers.

CPU Time: 1:05.42
Mem Useage 401,000K
VM Size 533,832K
I/O Reads 370,598
I/O Writes 1998

This seems like a lot of activity for a program that I don't even
recognize. Any comments will be appreciated.

Sounds like you've been trojaned and the trojan is sending millions of spams
from your machine.

Don't worry; presently your ISP will terminate your connection and the
trojan will have no way of sending spam. Your machine should then speed back
up.