Slow start to browsing

[David Beard]

A few days ago IE6 changed its speed of loading. On
launching the program for any site it simply sits for at
least 2 minutes before the site loads. Once at the site,
and moving between links or onto a new site it is back to
its usual (fast) speed. New instances of IE also load very
quickly. However once I close all instances of IE and
relaunch, then the problem repeats itself.

I have run CWshredder, Spybot and Ad-Aware and
unfortunately this doesn't help.

This may be a coincidence, but I've noticed that my
Outlook reading pane demonstrates a similar slowness in
displaying - this problem started at the same time as the
IE problem.

Can anyone help?

 

[H Leboeuf]

Download the latest version of CWS and check again.

If still no joy then try "HijackThis" listed below.

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Due to a new variant of CWS named "CWS.SmartKiller", many may have problems
accessing any spyware related sites if installed. A detection/removal tool
(delcwssk) is the miniremoval_coolwebsearch_smartkiller.exe by PepiMK and is
available at:
http://majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html

Due to many Spyware help sites being under a DDoS attack (Distributed Denial
of Service), they may/may not be accessible. You can download the latest
versions here:
http://majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html

Download/run Cool Web Shredder from:
http://www.merijn.org/

For Info on Cool Web Search Variants:
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html

Then download/install/run Ad-Aware to detect/rid of any other
parasites/spyware that may be installed. It can be obtained free from:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
After installing Ad-Aware, open it and click on the ref update to get the
latest up-to-date ref file, then run Ad-Aware and delete everything it
finds.

And/or download/install/run:
Spybot - Search & Destroy:
http://security.kolla.de/index.php?lang=en&page=download

If you still have problems, download/run HijackThis from:
http://www.merijn.org/
Do not remove anything with it until you get advice on what to remove,
HJThis will list many apps that are needed along with the bad ones. Read the
quick start here on how to create a log file that can be copied/pasted into
a forum that can provide assistance on removal of unwanted pests.
http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/#quick


Then post the logs to an appropriate NG here where they specialize in
spyware/hijacker removal:
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/