Vista - after malware removal computer is slow

what could be causing my computer to boot up so slowly? If anything i thought
it would be faster since I just removed a bunch of spyware and a virus too. I
had to use stopzilla because live one care was not detecting it .I could see
a trojan in my files so I bought stopzilla and it found no less than 34
infections, I removed them all and now is when i actually notice weird
behavior from my computer. any suggestions? thank you.

Hello newbie,

Have a look here:

Computer viruses: description, prevention, and recovery

<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/129972/>

Good luck
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"newbie" wrote:

since a takes me awhile to do these things i wanted to say thanks for your
quick reply.
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"Engel" wrote:

On Sat, 17 May 2008 15:10:00 -0700, newbie
<newbie@xxxxxx> wrote:
How did you verify that your computer is actually clean?
You need to revert to a known clean state. If you have no other ways
of achieving this, it ultimately means flatten and rebuild.

Then you need to implement a security concept for the future in order
to keep malware out instead of relying on removal tools.

to: engel, thanks for your suggestion but the link you provided is no longer
available and microsoft support(posts)does not have any info on actually
recovering after removal of malware, at least i couldnt find any and to:
straight talk , i guess i never did verify my comp.is clean now because i
dont know how, where can i find instructions on how to make sure my computer
is clean? i though by running one care and stopzilla together along with
windows defender it would be sufficient, but my computer is definetly acting
weird and i would like to know how to" flatten and rebuild" thank you all so
much
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"Straight Talk" wrote:

On Sat, 17 May 2008 16:28:00 -0700, newbie wrote:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...alling_Windows

> what could be causing my computer to boot up so slowly? If anything iI suggest that you scan your computer with additional antispyware programs.
There's a good chance there are more bugs that need to be removed. Try
SuperAntiSpyware Free and Spybot Search & Destroy:

www.superantispyware.com

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

Try this if youre in the US / CANADA

1-866 727 2338 ( that’s Microsoft Security )

also Pcsafety as far as I know can proceed with your final cleanup concerns
since there are / has been significant change in the systems
performance after clean up. as you indicated was there any malware / spyware
detected by both Onecare ( or previous Windows Defender ).



"newbie" <newbie@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C627EEC0-A4A4-4A6B-8AB5-5367200E45E5@xxxxxx

thanks victek ,i did run spybot and did find additional spyware! dont know
why im suprised, however my computer is still acting funny so i uninstalled
stopzilla because thats when the really weird behavior began, but i dont know
if maybe it removed something that was not supposed to be removed or if
stopzilla itself was the problem, its only been a few hours since removal of
sz and my computer is running much faster but ill need time to see if it
helped the weird behavior at all, its strange how i didnt notice any
weirdness until after i installed sz, but sz DID find and remove desktop
virii which i could see but couldnt remove before sz soo... maybe sraight
talk was right and i should flatten and rebuild. thank you.
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"Victek" wrote: