So far...

[arib]

One virus, one fairly malignant and tough-to-remove bit of spyware, and everything's still running slow.

Ugh. It's like swimming in molasses.

Comments

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

Did you get hit by "Lien van de Kelder.exe"? That one just attacked my XP box. Vicious and well-written form of evil. Too bad the guy doesn't write useful software cuz it'd never crash.

[arib.livejournal.com]

No. Some VBS thing.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

You might like to have a look at your process table and see where all your CPU time is going.

[arib.livejournal.com]

how's that accomplished? The manager that pops up when I ctrl-alt-del?

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

What OS do you use?

[arib.livejournal.com]

XP Home, SP-2

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Then seeing as how it's based on 2k (which I use), you shoud be able to go to start/run, and then type 'taskmgr' in the box and hit enter.

[arib.livejournal.com]

Seems like the bulk of the resources get taken up by Outlook and Firefox. Not too surprising.