Bogs Down

[Dave]

After 5-10 minutes of being on my computer slows to a
crawl and constant churning begins.....anyone els
experiencing this?

Dave

 

[Dave]

a couple things to do: scan for viruses, trojans, adware, spyware, any
other nasties... look in task manager to see what process is taking up the
cpu time. make sure you have a firewall up.

 

[John Thomas Smith]

After 5-10 minutes of being on my computer slows to a
crawl and constant churning begins.....anyone els
experiencing this?

Make sure your anti-virus definitions are updated and scan,
then install a firewall if you don't have one
Free Firewall http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf/spf_ov.htm
Run this http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
Also
Stop Flash from taking "forever" to download those huge files
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,22947,00.asp
If your computer is infected with a virus, removal tools here
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/tools.list.html
Stop Internet Explorer pop-ups http://www.panicware.com
Prescreen and block Email http://www.mailwasher.net
Tweak your system to run better http://www.xteq.com

Anti-virus programs do not find spyware, try these
Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html


John Thomas Smith
http://www.direct2usales.com
http://www.pacifier.com/~jtsmith