web loading slowly !

[hrlyjoe43]

recently ,
my web connection has been just crawling along . it seems like
days for a page to load . no drastic changes have been made . and the
internet connection was working at a good speed before . it is a dsl
connection , hard wired -not wireless . no new software loaded on computer
but a ton of svchost connections in task manager (8-10 at times). i run avg
professional anti-virus , windows firewall and windows defender . any help or
ideas would be fantastic .

 

[Leonard Grey]

1- If you have anti-virus and anti-spyware programs already installed on
your computer, update the programs and scan your computer. With luck,
the programs will detect and remove the problem.

2- If the scan doesn't produce results, contact the program's technical
support. Most of the major anti-virus/spyware programs will help you to
remove an infection that their software did not detect.

3- Scan your system with /several/ of the better free online scanners,
such as (no order implied):

Kaspersky Antivirus (http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner)
NOD32 (http://www.eset.com/download/index.php) - free 30-day trial
Trend Micro Housecall (http://housecall.trendmicro.com)
Panda ActiveScan (http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan)
Sophos
(http://www.sophos.com/products/free-tools/sophos-threat-detection-test.ht
ml)
Avast! (http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-virus-cleaner.html)
GrisSoft AVG (http://www.grisoft.com/doc/34/ww/crp/0)

4- HijackThis is a hijacker detector and remover, but expanded with a
lot of other checks against hijacker tricks. It is continually updated
to detect and remove new hijacks. More information here:

http://www.whatthetech.com/hijackthis_v2/

You can post your HiJack This logs in several forums (NOT here), such as
this one:

http://forums.whatthetech.com/HijackThis_Logs_and_Infections_Removal_f27.h
tml

If none of the above remove the malware, you may want to show the
computer to a professional.

There may be nothing you can do to remove an infection, no matter what
you try. That's because some infections compromise your computer to the
point where you can no longer rely on what the operating system is
telling you. Rootkits are an example of this kind of infection. In that
case, your only way out is to erase your hard disk and reinstall
everything from scratch.

"Help I Got Hacked. Now What Do I Do?"
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/secmgmt/sm0504.mspx

"So how did I get infected in the first place?"
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=60955

 

[hrlyjoe43]

well , your in the thought that it is a software problem . a virus or
something of that nature .

 

[Gerry]

Joe

Check your Add-Ons by disabling all and adding them back one at a time
testing each in turn. In Internet Explorer Tools, Manage Add-Ons, Enable
or Disable Add-Ons. Also checking whether the Phishing Filter is causing
problem. Internet Explorer 7 has a filter but so does other security
software like Norton.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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