5+ minutes to reboot?

I must apologize for my long winded post in advance, I just like giving as much detail as possible.

Since the middle of last week my laptop has been really slow, like the title implies. I can not think of any changes that I have done in months, before the sudden slow down. I knew something was up when I started recieving popups, and an alert in the tool tray (the box by my clock) saying I was vulnerable or an infection is present. I realized immediately that the popup was malware, and disco'd the network cable to stop the bleeding. I log on as admin about once a week to check for and install updates requiring admin user level, mostly windows items, and an occasional AutoCAD update. Because the BS about windows inability to autocheck for updates in Opera or Firefox I only had IE6 for internet, while logged on as admin. Other than that Opera is my browser of choice. I normally log on with my profile, with power user level, using opera for my browsing.

I had heard of this site before and ran through the bits and pieces I could. Some of the problems/symptoms I have and had.
- Unable to check for windows updates (still present)
- Add/Remove Programs through Control panel does not show any programs, and will not close down. (still present)
- Random Run-Time errors. (now that I want it to so I can write it down I cannot get it to happen)
- The control panel plays Hide and seek with me, one reboot it is there next it may not be. (still present)
- When I clicked on the Unplug or Eject Hardware icon in the tool tray, I got an error message concerning insufficient rights needing to be an admin to perform this task. (have not experienced this one since going through the "Read & Run Me First")
- Random error messages about insufficient memory windows will increase Virtual memory, with only one program running the Performance tab of Task manager looks like an seismograph for San Francisco or LA. (frequency is decreasing since R&R me 1st)
- Popups about warning messages concerning security issues. (GONE hopefully for good)
- Extremely Sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow reboot, and slugish performance. (still here)
- When Zone Alarm was installed SERVICES.EXE kept trying to access the internet. I did some googling and found it may or may not be the good version. I did a search and found 6 objects on my 'puter
- C:\WINNT\$NtServicePackUninstall$
- C:\WINNT\$NtUpdateRollupPackUninstall$
- C:\WINNT\ServicePackFiles\i386
- C:\WINNT\SoftwareDistribution\Download\%ac96bf333693381ef14463235ccfce4
- C:\WINNT\system32
- C:\WINNT\system32\dllcache
I read that the only one is supposed to be the "C:\WINNT\syystem32" and now I'm concerned. (still present)
- When I run a-squared it keeps finding "Trace.Registry.KaZaA" but I know I have never had KaZaA, I know how dirty it made my in-Laws computer when their boys used it.

I thought I had LavaSoft AdAware 6 (Pro I think) and one other product running on reboot, guess what it somehow became deactivated or compromised. I have since declared WAR on Malware, unfortunatly I still feel like I am losing. My laptop and the rest of my network is sitting behind 2 HW firewalls.

Products I currently have monitoring the front lines: (all DL from your links)
- AVG Free Edition - with updates daily.
- a squared free edition - with current updates.
- I installed Zone Alarm but uninstalled when it kept me from getting to the internet, I will reinstall some solution once my other issues are solved and I can be sure the problem is not of a malicious nature.
- SUPERAntiSpyware free version set to check for updates on reboot.
- AVG Anti-Root Kit Free.
- SpyBot-Search & Destroy - searching for uodates
- SpyWare Blaster - searching for updates
- SpyWare Guard - with Liveupdates
- And I love CCleaner - it is how I have been able to Delete programs I don't want/need anymore.


I hope I have been thorough enough in providing my situation, once again sorry if I was long winded.

Oh yeah the HW & SW details

IBM Thinkpad P3 1133MHZ
1 Gig RAM
Windows 2000 SP4 Pro
Office 2003 Pro
AutoCAD 2006
DeLorme Streets 2005 (for GPS receiver)
Microsoft Active Sync (for my PDA Phone)
The AV AS FW AM programs listed earlier
Firefox, Opera, IE6

I'm sure you can see all this anyway in the attached log files.

 

I have a second log file from SUPERAntiSpyware, I ran this one today when I thought I lost the first one. It looks clean to me, but I know very Little.