very slow boot up and down

Hi again,

Ive gone through a very extensive last 2 months cleaning my pc from any viruses, spyware, trojans, junk etc.

I think there is not much more i can do, everyhting is fine except a very slow boot up and log off. Much slower than it was before.

I have the same three programs starting up, MS Antispyware, SpywareGuard, Nortons and Kerio Firewall. Its only been the last week or so its been very slow.

I have used MS Bootvis but didnt help much.

I dont know if anyone can help but i thought i'd try. Thanx

 

Please see the below thread, then attach a current HJT log.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/images/grenade.gif Downloading, Installing, and Running HijackThis

 

I use MS antispyware to stop some processes/programs from running at start up. I have also used optimise XP to disable some services using services.msc

Do you want me to re enable all these ie both in MS Antispyware and services.msc? I wasnt sure if thats what the thread ment.

 

You should only disable services that are unnecessary and only if you know which ones there are.

MSAS is still in beta, I personally dont use it for this reason. Lets start by getting a HJT log.

 

Ok here is the attched HJT log.

 

Just as an aside i ran a scan with rootkit revealer and it found 46000 discrepencies, although they all said 'Visible in Windows API, MFT, but not in directory index.

I disconnected my modem, shut down any unecessary programs and didnt touch the pc until scan finished.

I dont know if this is anything to worry about.

 

Please download Blacklight to its own folder...

F-Secure Blacklight

After download is complete, double click to run the program. Click "Accept" to procede. Then click SCAN to begin scanning your system.

Once the scan is complete it will attempt to clean the found infections. There should be a log in the folder that you ran the program from, attach this log to your next post along with a fresh HJT log.

 

I ran a scan with blacklight but it said no hidden items found?

 

Please see the below thread on how to install and run Spy Sweeper.

Running Spy Sweeper...

Note: This will not remove anything but, the reason for this is to see if there are any potential rootkit masked files. If you can, attach the log from this scan.

 

No items were found with spy sweeper?

 

That's a good thing, attach the log from a Rootkit Revealer scan.

 

The log is very large, 6.70Mb.

It found about 46000 discrepancies, all 'Visible in windows API, MFT, but not in directory index'.

 

Since F-Secure & SS didnt find anything I would worry to much about those as not all detections are really rootkits.

Please see the below thread on how to run WinPfind and attach the log.

• Running WinPfind by OldTimer

 

attached is the winPfind log. The entries found in host i think are false positives since i use MVP hosts.

 

Please download HOSTER and then follow the below steps.

• Unzip HOSTER to a convenient folder such as C:\Hoster

• Run Hoster.exe, click Restore Original Hosts and then click OK.

• Click the X to exit the program.

After you complete the above, reboot and attach a new WinPFind log.

 

I was asked to do this last time but the items found in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\drivers\etc\HOSTS turned out to be false positives?

Is that why you recommend using hoster, for these intems?

 

Nothing should be in the HOSTS file like this, the only thing that should be in the HOSTS file is the below.

 

The reason that there are other items in host file is because i use MVP Hosts file.

 

Are you still having problems?

 

Its still very slow to start up and now Kerio wont auto start i have to manually start it up.

 

Download RegSupreme Pro 1.2, save to desktop.

After download is complete, double click to install. After the programs comes up click OK and let the program update the cache to make the cleaning faster.

After that screen goes away, click on the "Registry Cleaner" tab and choose "Aggressive" scan. Once the scan is completed choose "FIX" and fix all found items. Type a name for the backup and reboot once completed.

Let me know if this helps your performance any.

 

It seems to be a little better.

 

What speed CPU are you running? How much memory are you running?

 

I prob need more RAM although it was much faster a month ago with the same RAM. I am running 256Mb and 1.8GHz.

 

That should run XP pretty good, I recommend at least 512 but that will run XP fairly well.

Since your malware related problems are resolved, you can post over in the software forum and they may have a few suggestions for you.

Good Luck!

 

ok thanx

 

Your Welcome!