W2k Sluggish

[Roxy]

Win2k has become sluggish on my desktop PC. For the last few days it seems
to take forever for IE6 or any other program to startup on clicking on the
icon. I click, for example, on IE6 and after a brief moment the hourglass
disappears but the program is not visible -- then after a while it pops
open. It also seems to affect my broadband connection, which turns extremely
sluggish -- a page opens, yet it takes several minutes.

This problem seems to have cropped up after visiting a website that had an
almost unending run of pop-up windows with advertisements of every sort.

I installed Ad-aware and zapped those adware items and I did a scan with my
virus program.

Yet, it seems there is no clear solution. So I was thinking whether W2K pro
has the equivalent of system restore I have in my other PC, which runs
WinMe/w2k on dual reboot and in which I normally run WinMe as the primary
OS. I remember as well that Win98 also had a similar escape route to restore
the system to a previous state, before an error had been inserted into the
PC.

I did try a system restore of sorts, called "last known good
configuration" -- even though it only had one restoration point, no real
selection because I had no idea when that restoration point had been
established.

Ideas appreciated. Thanks

Roxy

 

[DL]

You have a firewall installed? ZoneAlarm is often recommended, and free.
You might also want to try SpyBot Search & Destroy - similar to Adaware, but
one often find items the other misses.
Does Running Processes/Apps give any clues?
Also tried an online scan, from Symantec or McAfee? sound like something is
using yr sys.
There is no 'go back/recover' option in win2K

 

[Roxy]

No firewalls, other than those my ISP has.

My impression, as you also suggest, is that something is running but it is
not obvious in the list of running applications, or shown by msconfig, which
I loaded into W2k. Unfortunate that W2k has no system recover process.

Will keep searching and destroying adware nuisances.

Thank.

Roxy

 

[DL]

I cannot comment on how good bellsouth firewall is, but I'm not sure I would
rely on an ISP's app
I have virus scanning at my domain provider, but I still use an AV app
If something - virus /trojan has been downloaded - it is unlikely to appear
in running processes or apps
nor will you see it in msconfig.- many of these actually pose as win2k sys
files.
You dont say whether you've run an online scan, even if you have an AV app,
or rely on yr ISP, it wont do any harm.

 

[George Hester]

Is probably the AV software.

 

[Roxy]

Gents:

I'll backtrack and rescan.

Thank you.

Roxy



Is probably the AV software.