Are Hijackers Responsible for Excessive Hard Drive Activity?

Hi,

I'm looking at a friend's PIIIm running at 730 Mhz, on XP SP2, 128M Ram.

Initially my friend told me that the laptop was running slowly. I did all of the preliminary scans and fixes. I cleaned a few viruses, and a bunch of adware and spyware. I also was able to remove a few memory hogs and hijacks with hijack this. All scans are now clean.

The laptop is running a lot smother than before, however of the 128 MB of RAM, it has 12 MB available, and there is a lot of hard disk activity while the computer is running. There are a few services running which Hijack this reports as 023s.

Is it likely that the performance and HD activity is due to speed of the processor and amount of ram, or could it be other hijackers or could it be the services that are running? What could be done about the 023s? The Hijack this website aren't to clear about this.

Thanks.

 

It could be a combination of all of these things. Chances are, all of the services listed are legitimate and needed.

It could also be caused by a piece of malware that you missed, though that would probably stand out and be easily spotted (ex/ StopGuard-Virtumundo which used make machines grind to a halt!).

Attach a fresh HJT log from Normal Windows boot and someone will have a look to see if it is clean.

PP

 

Thanks for your response. I have attached the latest HJT log. This is from version 1.99.1
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I do not see anything bad in there. Norton is a tremendous resource hog - perhaps switching to AVG or Avast may help. The problem is likely due to the combination of issues you touched on a few posts ago.

Perhaps you may get some better suggestions to improve performance if you posted a query in Software Forum?

PP

 

Thanks a lot for your help.

 

I saw that! I let it slide since navapw32.exe was running from the proper location - Figured the new HJT had some kinks like the last one.
I suppose it couldn't hurt to fix that line, though.

PP

 

Good eyes, Chaslang!

That one slipped me. I, like PhilliePhan, saw it running from the correct location and ignored it. I didn't make the connection that it was linked to LexStart and that it was being started 2X.

I'll let HJT fix it, and I'll let you know what happens.

Thnx!

 

128 mgs is dog shit for memory, my xp machine running bare minimum startups and panda antivirus has that much cached right after startup.

 

HJT fixed the duplicate nav32. It runs better now, but still not very good. It would appear that more memory is needed to get better performance.

ccApp.exe seems to have trouble ending when shutting down XP. 'Ending Program ccApp.exe' appears 2X at every shutdown.