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Penny wrote:
> The problem I'm having is NOT IE it's windows explorer. I have tried
> everybody and their brothers spyware tools, Microsoft's malware remover and
> nothing has helped. It may not be spyware, in honesty I have spent many
> hours on this problem and am at wits end.
>
I had a similar problem with a failing drive cable. You could also use
a program like Everest to make sure that the power supply is not failing
causing problems with other parts.
> What makes this worse is I opened a problem ticket with Microsoft today, got
> transferred all over the place and got put on hold for over an hour - I'm not
> even sure what the problem is, but if I can get through to someone I want to
> ask if there is a diagnostic tool I can use that will tell me more
> information.
>
> Does anyone know of such a tool that might give me more information about
> the problem?
>
> "TRABEM" wrote:
>
>
>>Penny, I read your message with great interest. I had an unexplained
>>slow down, which turned out NOT to be spyware....but it took many many
>>hours to track down the problem.
>>
>>In the process, I discovered the IE browser hijacker problem, which is
>>the new frontier in terms of security threats.
>>
>>Many advocate dumping IE due to it's susceptibility to browser
>>hijacking, a problem that Bill has failed to address, even to this
>>day.
>>
>>I found a very nice website set up to test susceptibility of your
>>browser to intrusion from many different types of attack. I think I
>>DIDN'T bookmark it, but it was called 'Jason's Toolbox'.
>>
>>My IE passed, but only because of high awareness and custom settings
>>with regard to activeX, the tool that enables the most severe type of
>>browser security breaches.
>>
>>In a nutshell, if you have activeX enabled, your browser can be
>>redirected to anywhere...without your knowledge. You think you're on
>>the checkout website of amazon.com giving your credit card
>>number....and in fact you are on a Siberian located dial up system
>>handing out your personal information. You get the idea I'm sure.
>>
>>As the final phase of our computer clean up, we are going to dumb down
>>IE so severely that it can only get microsoft upgrades...and use
>>Firefox browser.
>>
>>Regards.
>>
>>T
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:47:02 -0700, "rosebeauty"
>><rosebeauty@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi, Penny,
>>>I am posting the following, with the thought in mind that you might have
>>>spyware that scans have not found.
>>>Somehow, somewhere, within the last week, my machine became infected with 3
>>>spywares and 1 spy cookie. All this occurred in spite of the fact that I run
>>>with daily updated Norton AntiVirus, ZoneAlarm Pro, Ad-Aware SE Personal,
>>>SpywareBlaster, PestPatrol, Spy Sweeper, Spyware Doctor and CounterSpy.
>>>Scans found nothing except CounterSpy, which found IST.IST (Browser
>>>Hijacker), 007 Keylogger Spy 3.7 (Surveillance), Force 1.59 (Backdoor) and
>>>Hotbar (Cookie). Ad-Aware found 18 negligible items and nothing else. I
>>>have Windows XP Home Edition SP2 with all critical updates installed. I have
>>>been to very few websites - all considered to be safe - and have downloaded
>>>only one questionable software package, that being, Agent Ransack. I had
>>>scanned the download with Norton AV, but I had not installed it. I use IE6,
>>>which is patched with all available Microsoft patches, and I do not use any
>>>IM or P2P software. Windows Messenger is held in check with ZoneAlarm Pro
>>>configuration.
>>>
>>>If my machine could get infected with all this shielding, perhaps your
>>>machines have spyware that your scans have not detected. I highly recommend
>>>that you try CounterSpy.
>>>HTH
>>>
>>>
>>>"Penny" wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Pentium 4 2.26G machine with 768mb of RAM. 40 Gig hard drive. Pagefile is
>>>>1.1g.
>>>>
>>>>This is an XP machine SP2. This is also happening to a machine that's
>>>>identical to mine in specs, except it's a W2K SP4 machine.
>>>>
>>>>"Jim" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>"Penny" <Penny@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>>>>news:96556F3F-03D0-47C9-B831-B052EA8F56C7@microsoft.com...
>>>>>
>>>>>>I'm experiencing HUGE performance problems with my machine! I believe the
>>>>>>problem might be with Windows explorer. When I go into windows explorer
>>>>>>it
>>>>>>takes a full minute to open any type of document.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>When going into task manager, there's no obvious high CPU or memory being
>>>>>>used. This is not an obvious problem and I have spent DAYS trying to
>>>>>>research the this with no answers. I ran virus scans, defragged, all the
>>>>>>usual stuff that might fix such oddities all to no avail. Now I have
>>>>>>several
>>>>>>users encountering the same problem. In a failed attempt to fix my own
>>>>>>machine I ran a utility called lspfix, which totally messed my machine up
>>>>>>and
>>>>>>had to format and start over.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>This is NOT the solution, I've got to find some answers. Since this is
>>>>>>happening here, I'm sure someone else has encountered this and am hoping
>>>>>>someone has figured out what to do. HELP
>>>>>
>>>>>How about giving the system specs? There are lots and lots of reasons for
>>>>>performance hits, but without knowing things like amount of ram, size of
>>>>>pagefile, size of system disk, type of cpu, specifications of the disks,
>>>>>etc., it will be hard to give more than a wild guess.
>>>>>Jim
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>
>>
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