Jeremy said:
My comp. (till yesterday) was a fast computer, and when i turned it
on, it would always load in a matter of seconds. I have no idea what
the heck happened, by when i turned my computer on today, it was
slowww. and when i press ctrl alt and delete, it says that CPU is at
100 and explorer.exe is taking up a lot of memory. And the thing is,
since i have been installing new programs (i installed an accelerator
as well as this program called sound forge) i went to click on control
panel in order to delete some of the programs i have installed, but it
wont go. Im able to write here without a problem because i clicked on
end process on explorer.exe and then opened a new taskt and clicked on
outlook express. What should i do??? Thanks.
It sure sounds like you have picked up a virus or some spyware. For
instance, I'm not sure what you mean by "an accelerator", but most of
those programs that promise to speed up your computer, memory
"optimizers", etc. are nothing more than useless vehicles for spyware.
1) Scan with current antivirus ("current" means a version not earlier
than 2002 but using updated virus definitions); 2) remove spyware with
Spybot Search & Destroy (
www.security.kolla.de) and Ad-aware
(
www.lavasoftusa.com). Be sure to update these programs before running,
and it is a good idea to do virus/spyware scans in Safe Mode.
Malke
