Puter Slow????

[Cactus]

My computer is all of the sudden very slow. I have cable and I did a speed check and everything was great but everything loads like I have dialup. I use spybot and Norton Internet Security and have done all the full system scans and disc cleanups to no luck. I have plenty of memory also. Help!!

[Fati750]

time to pull an office space on that bitch!!!!

[GixxerTib]

I know you said you tried spybot but did you try ad-aware...our computers at work had something like that happen and spybot missed it but ad aware picked up a website tracker and removed it and it came back up to speed. Also look into some registry cleaners on download.com

[beanfield]

Cactus said:
My computer is all of the sudden very slow. I have cable and I did a speed check and everything was great but everything loads like I have dialup. I use spybot and Norton Internet Security and have done all the full system scans and disc cleanups to no luck. I have plenty of memory also. Help!!

What are your system specs? I.E. operating system, cpu, ram, hard drive size, and hard drive free space. Is your antivirus software up to date? You could be infected with a virus, worm, and/or trojan that is using all of your bandwidth. You could try a free antivirus scan at http://housecall.antivirus.com Do you have any p2p programs running? You could be unknowingly uploading files 24/7 and using up all of your bandwidth. Do you have any other software running? Is there anyone else on your network that could be using your bandwidth? Do you have a wireless access point? If so, is it secured? Someone could be stealing bandwidth from you. Are you running a Microsoft operating system? If so, it sucks...you need to ditch it.

[Cactus]

Hey beanfield you are out of my league I think! I am up to date with Norton Internet Security and Firewall. I am running Windows 2000 with 256 memory and I just uninstalled Ad Aware and installed Spybot cause I heard it was better. When I do Alt cont. delete and do a task manager I have 25 things running at the same time. What they are and what to do with them is where I am lost. I don't have a clue. I am not on a network and I am running regular cable. What are my options?

[beanfield]

Honestly, it could be any one of a number of things. First of all, did you update the definitions for spybot when you ran it? Both spybot and adaware rely on definitions (like virus scan software) that must be updated regularly. Even if you go download the newest version of spybot and/or adaware to install, their defs will not be updated. Update spybot and run again. There should be some kind of an online update button or icon. I'd do the same for adaware, I don't think it should be a problem to have them both installed at the same time.

If that doesn't work, I'd check to see if the web browser is the problem. Try and install Mozilla's firefox browser http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o...xSetup-0.8.exe It's very light weight and should load pages fairly quickly. See if you still have the same slowness browsing with Firefox. If firefox is able to render pages quickly, then you can probably isolate the problem to Internet Explorer (which I assume is what you're using). If firefox also loads pages slowly, then we can check other things (disk free space, virus missed by Norton, network issues, etc...).

Keep us posted.

[micky750]

Hi Cactus
don't know if you have sorted your problems yet, but if you want to avoid spyware here's what I'm using:

SpaywareBlaster: Prevents ad/spyware from getting on, it rocks.

Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D - Sometime ome will pick up what the other misses - run ad-aware first then spybot .

Zone Alarm Firewall - I think its lot better then norton
AVG anti virus
Startup Mechanic - scans the registry for new items , has pick-uped stuff the rest has missed

Also check you norton firewall settings as by default it leaves a couple of ports open