XP is Extremely Sluggish

[Tim Meddick]

Of course I do realise - hence the apology....

But, such is the state of my immediate health at this moment, I felt that,
at the time, I might write a few points that others (mainly the OP) may
find of use, and hoped that I wasn't repeating what other's had said.

I also felt that I had a good chance of this being the case.

As I didn't feel up to it, if I felt it was essential to go through the
other posts in the thread beforehand, I would have skipped answering it at
all!

Only the facts of what anyone got out of my post can be the judge of how
useful it actually was.

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[glee]

Of course I do realise - hence the apology....

But, such is the state of my immediate health at this moment, I felt
that, at the time, I might write a few points that others (mainly the
OP) may find of use, and hoped that I wasn't repeating what other's
had said.
snip

Hope your health situation improves, Tim....I've "been there" too many
times...

 

[Tim Meddick]

My instinct to react to unjustified attacks by slanderers and malcontents
is not as strong as my desire to have nothing more to do with them.

This type change their posting-name every ten minutes, which should tell
people just what type that is...

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Tim Meddick]

I'm sure it will, & thankyou for the goodwill (I collect it, you know)...

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[MyNews]

On Feb 8, 2:13 am, "MyNews" <[email protected]> wrote:

Svchost.exe is a good thing!

Who is ForceField.exe? << look it up!
I see it was not in the list of Uninstall!
if you do not install it a bad thing!

Get Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and run it!
http://www.malwarebytes.org/

 

[MyNews]

I think that "SFX Cabinet Self-Extractor is trying to access the
trusted zone" has something to do with Acast also. I clicked ok, and
now no longer get that, but I can't get Avast! to work now anyway. So
I don't know if Avast! could be part of the slow down. It seems like
more of a victim of the problem.

ForceField is part of ZoneAlarm. It has something top do with a
ZoneAlarm toolbar and protects from Phishing. But I have no such
toolbar visible. I always uncheck those kind of installs when setting
up an app.

Also, I "Starts -> Run -> msconfig" all the time so I can go to
Startup and uncheck boxes before I re-boot and run system maintenance
and defragmentation.

I just when there and it seems like there are more things checked than
usual. (See below)...

avastUI
zlclient
realsched
jusched
svchost
cfmon
msmsgs
svchost
shortcut to autoru...
shortcut to rocket...

Thanks.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

msmsgs is a big shown down on xp!

 

[MyNews]

You have malware, based on what you stated you saw on-screen and wrote
down:
"C:\WINDOWS\system32\WinDir\svchost.exe"

svchost.exe a standard Windows file when located in C:\Windows\system32
There is normally no sub-folder of System32 named WinDir, except when
created by malware, and any copy of svchost.exe there is likely an
infected file.

--
Glen Ventura
MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
CompTIA A+
http://dts-l.net/

You a 100% right like all way Glen!

 

[MyNews]

That's generally a dangerous thing to do. There might be
some clues hidden in the other posts. You never know.
Where is your sense of curiosity ?

Paul

No this time Paul

if the OP do as glee said: First, then as Tim Meddick said Sec. he be good
to go!
But he need to run http://www.malwarebytes.org/ Software!

 

[MyNews]

I'm sure it will, & thankyou for the goodwill (I collect it, you know)...

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

Good to see you and Glee back on the same page a gen!
Get Well and we pray for you!

Yours
Hot-Text

 

[MowGreen]

Ok, I've used that years ago.

I downloaded a copy and it found 27 infected files.

After it finished and I re-booted it still took a long time for my
icons to appear once I reached the Desktop, so I'm not sure how much
it helped.

Windows did inform me that I ran out of "virtual memory" when I was
shutting down.

The next time I have to re-boot hopefully things will be better.

Thanks.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

Zone Alarm has been crap since Check Point acquired it and it not only
hinders XP from updating, it does more to harm XP's stability and
performance than "protect" it from a possible compromise.

Strongly suggest that you uninstall it, reboot, run their removal tool-
http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/support/cpes_clean.exe

Reboot after running it, then buy a router with a hardware firewall
( wired routers are relatively inexpensive now ), and use the latter in
conjunction with the native XP firewall.



MowGreen
================
*-343-* FDNY
Never Forgotten
================

"Security updates should *never* have *non-security content* prechecked

 

[Searcher7]

Zone Alarm has been crap since Check Point acquired it and it not only
hinders XP from updating, it does more to harm XP's stability and
performance than "protect" it from a possible compromise.

Strongly suggest that you uninstall it, reboot, run their removal tool-http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/support/cpes_clean.exe

Reboot after running it, then buy a router with a hardware firewall
( wired routers are relatively inexpensive now ), and use the latter in
conjunction with the native XP firewall.

MowGreen
================
  *-343-* FDNY
Never Forgotten
================

"Security updates should *never* have *non-security content* prechecked

If it involves getting anything more from or having to increase
contact with Microsoft, or having to learn a lot of new stuff I'd
rather stay with the way things are. I've learned that the more
complicated things get the more problems I have.

I uninstalled Avast! and re-installed it and that not only fixed
Avast! but I no longer have to wait 5 or 10 minutes for the desk top
icons to appear.

Thanks.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.