Gerry
Fri Mar 07 11:20:00 PST 2008
Nijmegen
An anti-virus programme deals with viruses. Anti-spyware software deals
with malware (spyware). Removing malware can be problematic if you get
certain Trojans installed. They invite their friends and no single
anti-spyware programme is capable of detecting all guests.
Try another scan with Spybot S & D
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html
Take care you get the freeware version.
You may have irretrievably damaged you software using a "registry
cleaner". Let's hope not.
http://aumha.net:80/viewtopic.php?t=28099
You need to look more carefuly at your suspect explorer.exe. Explorer is
used by other applications and it could be the other application that is
causing the problem. You can do this using Process Explorer.
CPU usage relating explorer.exe in Task Manager may relate to a
subsidiary process where explorer.exe is acting as the parent. Thus in
Process Explorer you can see Process Explorer and Teatimer showing CPU
usage which then got repeated in explorer.exe. However, explorer.exe
acts as parent for any number of processes and you may need to dig
deeper to find the cause of the CPU usage.
For further information about Process Explorer see here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/ProcessExplorer.mspx
A new addition to Process Explorer is that you can now right click on a
process and search Online for relevant information.
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Nijmegen wrote:
> I have Windows XP SP2; 512 MB RAM; 40GB Harddisc space (maximum;
> about 12 GB left) and 1,0 Ghz CPU.
>
> Last month I had discovered that I had about 16 viruses and trojans
> on my pc when I had them removed with Adaware (The updated Mcafee
> VirusScan did NOTHING!) and used a "registry cleaner" too. (I made no
> backup, to save some of my 40GB diskspace)
> But now sometimes when I reboot, explorer.exe will fail to initiate
> (with an error message) and when it does, it slows my pc after some
> minutes.
>
> Examples: when I am surfing the net (or moving through my folders and
> files) a website (or folder or file) will take 1 minute to load or
> would freeze. But when I use taskmanager to shut down "explorer.exe."
> the surfing speeds up. And when I restart explorer.exe I can once
> again move through my folders and files again...but only for about
> 15-20 minutes. Because it will freeze again!
>
> When I look in taskmanger I see that explorer.exe is adding 4 kb of
> RAM every second, yet the entire windows explorer is frozen. (no way
> to go to my documents or even activate the "start" button! Unless if
> I shut down explorer.exe then resatrt it...)
>
> Is there a way to fix this...or is my RAM and Processor Power too low
> for today's standards??? Or has the virus/trojans/malware done
> something? (or Adaware and the registry cleaner)