XP very slow, infection?

jzaletelj · Jan 20, 2009

Hello!
I would kindly ask for some help as I am suspecting that some infection has caused my comp to become very slow. The computer is HP Compaq NC8430 (T7200, 3GB RAM).

My symptoms are:
- after login screen, it takes 5 or more minutes of blank background until icons and taskbar loads.
- overall speed is maybe 5% of normal: I can see icons updating on the desktop, the content of the window redrawn while dragging, slow startup time of applications ..
- CPU utilisation is 30% or more without doing anything
- Process explorer shows high cpu usage, same services take much more % CPU than on the healthy comp
- boot to Recovery console or Safe mode gives BSOD error 0x0000007B, after the hpdskflt.sys driver (HP mobile data protection)
It started more that week ago with slow login, but I also tweaked startup of some services in msconfig. It is interesting that after some reboots and scans with antivir computer was working normally for some hours, but then it slowed down again..

Is it possible that my external HDD and usb stick is also infected ?

I ran the tests, I hope you can help if there is still some infection. Combofix rebooted the machine after stage 32.

Thanks a lot,
Janez

chaslang · Jan 22, 2009

Welcome to Major Geeks!

Your problems do not appear to be malware. It just may be due to the fact of how you have configured things on your PC and how you are installing things into very unusal non-standard folders. i.e., G:\P_Utilities\Avast4\ That is a very bad idea especially in todays malware world as it immediately looks like malware and not a valid installation of Avast which would be in \Program Files\Avast and the same is true for everything else you are installing like this. However the biggest issue is the fact that ALL of your hard disk partitions are very low are free disk space especially drive G where you seem to be running many programs from. Your single 93.16 GB Fujitsu drive appears to have C, E, F and G partitions of the below sizes and free space:
Code:
Drive C: 
Size 30.01 GB (32,219,840,512 bytes) 
Free Space 1.94 GB (2,085,208,064 bytes)
 
Drive E: 
Size 6.02 GB (6,459,211,776 bytes) 
Free Space 5.54 GB (5,948,739,584 bytes)
Volume Name HP_RECOVERY 
 
Drive F: 
Size 36.87 GB (39,589,691,392 bytes) 
Free Space 1.72 GB (1,844,637,696 bytes)
 
Drive G: 
Size 20.25 GB (21,745,672,192 bytes) 
Free Space 536.92 MB (563,003,392 bytes)
You need to either delete a load of unecessary junk from your drives or you need a new hard disk where you can offload things to.

Also you may want to read the below about your BSOD error which is also not a problem for the Malware Forum:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822052

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