Slow as Molasses in January, Help!

Jimmy R

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Hardwired PC is running slow as molasses again at boot up.
First time in 20 days it has acted up since my last visit.
Booted up everything to the Trojan Remover Fast Scan 6.9.2 Eval Copy point (the last thing it loads) and began to drag big time.
Went to uninstall Trojan Remover Fast Scan 6.9.2 Eval Copy today that I was told to download by Paul NZ http://www.tomshardware.com/community/profile-1762585.htm
When it booted up Trojan Remover Fast Scan, machine began running very slow, went to uninstall, every click responding extremely slow.
Did several hard reboots to no avail.
I clicked to 'Cancel Scan' of Trojan Remover Fast Scan 6.9.2 Eval Copy and the box 'white's out' for about 3 minutes then returns to an extremly slow run.
Trojan Remover Fast Scan 6.9.2 Eval Copy usually zips along and is done, gone, and finished in almost a blink of an eye.
Posting from a danged near dead WiFi Laptop as PC attempts to run a scan of the Trojan Remover Fast Scan 6.9.2 Eval Copy.
Previous thread: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2734946/virus-trojan.html
 

Jimmy R

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I possess no Windows Disc.
Rebooted normally, waited for Trojan Remover to stop via command, that took 20 mins, now I've hit Start>Settings>Control Panel> waiting to see if C.P. will open to hit Add and Remove Programs.
 

Jimmy R

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Nope, no dice.
A balloon popped up saying, 'My Computer might be at risk No Firewall is turned on Antivirus software might not be installed Click this balloon to fix this problem'
Balloon clicked, no visible results as of yet.
 


Does not sound like you can do anything further without a repair setup at least and likely a clean setup. Is there a recovery partition in the laptop? It must have gotten installed somehow, from the OEM in which case you should have a restore partition or a restore disk, or you can boot the system and try to make a restore disk, if you installed it, try to find the disk you used to install it.
 

Jimmy R

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I was able to bump all of my clients' appts. forward until next week and I was patient like a hunter and eventually got all of my security software to update and receive full time coverage and access my files to uninstall the Trojan Remover completely. Suddenly things started acting normal. I may be cutting the XP cord this weekend.
 

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