Application Freeze

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Over the past month I've been getting an increase in (i dont know the
technical name) application freezes, where i can move the mouse and use
programs already open, but trying to open anything just doesn't work. When
the computer gets to this state, I also can't turn off the computer unless I
turn off the power bar, which i know is just horrible for the hardware and is
probably damaging the computer every time i do it.

i have a norton firewall and a norton antivirus, ad-aware, and AVG. They
all do daily scans. When I get home from classes, i usually have about 15
messages from Norton saying it blocked a port-scan attack and it deleted a
trojan. Does this have anything to do with the freezing?

Should I re-format? Or is there some other way?

I'm running Windows XP Home Edition, with SP2 as of when it came out. My
computer is a Cicero SH4660.
I've also installed an Audigy 2 Platinum and an NVIDIA FX 5200 on my own in
adjacent optical bays. My hard-drive is 46GB full of pretty important
material, if a re-format is avoidable, it would be in my best interests.

Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated.

Dylan
 
Many reasons for lock ups. CPU overheating, incompatible hardware devices,
bad Power Supply, malware, and spyware. You should run some free spy removal
tools to see if anything is found.

Here are some links to some free utilities.

Trend Sysclean Utility
http://www.trendmicro.com

Adaware SE
www.lavasoftusa.com

Spybot - search and destroy
www.safer-networking.org

CWShredder
http://forum.aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip


Instead of switching off the power, try and the power button on the Computer
for 3 to 7 seconds, this will shut it down.
 
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