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Well by now I am sure you have all heard me whining about how FN slow my computer is and how i get lag spikes that have topped 3500. whaa.wav

You all also know i got hit with a virus and it was difficult to get rid of, but seems to now be gone. Well my connection to the server just has not recovered.

So far i have ran jsut about everything you can imagine to help clear up things. Reg files, defraged, cleaned up drives, ran every spy ware program available and i tried to reformat but am not aloud for some reason.

Can anyone please help me get back to godlike again? I should have enough RAm and memory to play, but i don't know how to check it out. my video card is not huge but is OK.

I am willing to try just about anything. It mostley effects me on big mapos and when there are lots of peopl close to me or on the screen. I am noramly fine if i jsut stay in respawn my ping stay low, around 60-80, which was higher then before the virus. I have an anti hacker program running as well and I am still slow if i turn it off and play.

I have Grissoft AVG
Spy bot
adaware

jsut so you know. some one please make it all better of rme and i will give much mercy to you online.

Thanks again.
Twisted Evil

Try MS AntiSpyware. Uninstall/disable Spybot first, or MSAS and SB will fight each other and might mess up you system worse.

I use:
AVG
Adaware
Pop-up stopper free ed.
Google bar pop-up stopper
Explorer's pop-up stopper
(^those three together stop all pop-ups, I kill any one and I get pop-ups)
Zone Alarm Pro
RamBooster (never auto mode, just shows how much ram and I can clik optimize.)
and MS AntiSpyware

I never have had any problems since I added MS AntiSpyware. These programs work well together on my system.

Forum Newbie Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 37

I would suggest running SpywareDoctor it seems to catch alot of things the others won't. Also I had a vicious virus about 2 wks ago and after a week of making attempts to rid myself of it with about everything I had and could get ahold of I took it to a tech and he cleaned it out and done some routine maintenance to my pc.....now it runs faster than it has in over a year. If you are willing to put 40-50 bucks into having a tech specialized in this to clean it up......I think its money well spent

MS AntiSpyware does the same thing better and it's free.

I still say try the easy solution first. MicroSoft Anti-spyware does the same thing as hijack this but in one step and one reboot...it's all automated. Then if MS antispyware does miss anything try Gilliam's way. Also, MS AS can stay running and keep you safe.

But Gilliam is correct, if there seems to be no other solution I've seen hijack this do wonders.

Also rambooster saves me from rebooting to free ram. When programs close they leave a footprint in ram. WinXP does an ok job of this by it self, but when I clik optomize in my rambooster it cleans up all those footprints. I've tried other programs, trust me ram booster is best and free just DO NOT put it in auto-optimize mode.

I've ran all of that in the background for more than a year now (MS AS for about two months) and HAVE NOT needed and maintainence, reformating, restoring, or other fixing, and my computer runs faster than the day my roommate got it.

I'm sure thats not the only configuration of software that can keep a computer running smooth, but it works for me.

Gilliam, what program keeps you pop-up free?

microsoft anti-spyware has seemed to be more or less useless. adaware and spybot picked up a lot of stuff after i ran MS. I don't have any pop ups, jsut a really slow gameing experience now. I will try the spydocter and see if it picks up anything. I am also curious about the "hijackthis" thing is all about, it has come up a few times. But i have no idea what or where the log is i would have to paste into it. Any help here would be awesome.
I ran that ramboost thing and it says i am using Free ram and CPU usage of 29% or so. amd te guage below that ranges from 30%50%, I have ne idea what it means so i am thinking i am going to get rid of it. Does the tarket level at teh top do anything?, it is set at 1mb.

there is no spoo... i mean popups.
spideydude i use Firefox with adblock plugin.

on my own computer i dont need much. ad-aware, and CA E-trust ez-antivirus.

as a computer tech, i keep firefox, adaware, process explorer, hijackthis, and a few others for working on other people's comps.

Forum Soldier Joined: 23 Nov 2005 Posts: 371 Location: lol

you've probably got something running in the background of your comp thats using up a shitload of resources ... i remember when i was young and stupid i used to get those alot....
C +alt + Del and go through and eliminate processes you're unfamiliar with that are being run under your windows account and see if that help ... worst case scenerio you do something that bugs your system and you restart... no biggie

i have done all of that, that is why i listed those programs in particular. I have removed a lot of progrmas i had that were not seccassary, defraged both drives. Ran full scans with AVG, Spybot, adaware, Spy doctor and some of the microsoft programs. mcafee + norton (both trials) every registery cleaning program I could find on download.com, actually helped a bit.
ramboost (waste of time) now i have speedupmyPC 2.0, makes almost no differnece.

i am completely stumped.

Think i should jsut instert the windows disk and try to reload or repair the system? I am unable to reformat still, which i thought may have helped. i tried to repair steam, but it does't work for me either. says in need to put in a file or somehting.

should i get a better video card? mine is ATI but not one of the good radeon one, it was cheap and all i needed to run halflife 2 (which is boreing)

HELP ME PELASE. and thanks for all of the advice.

Helpful to you guys hopefully, i have like 6
svchost.exe in my task manager, i know that those files can be bad ones hidin sometimes, how do i know which ones?

Forum Medic Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 147

I suspect you have process running that the anti-spy programs can't ID. Run Process Explorer and HIJackthis.

Beware I have seen spyware that evades both of these programs.

Buy yourself a usb drive, backup your game configs,mp3s and pr0n. Then restore or reformat.

i cannot reformat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i have tried that. and have run hijack this, but i can't make heads or tails of what it says.

Forum Soldier Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 352

Well, what type of pc do you have first? mobo? cpu? etc...

pentium 4
2.59 ghz
496 ram
2 drives around 180 Gb of storage
It's a MDG computer so it is a clone.
i run windows XP pro.

Tell me where i can find mobo info and i will post it up for you.
I called nerds on site to see if they can help me but it is a minimum 120 CAD charge, which for me right now is too much to spend.

i am not sure what mother board i have, but it was really good last year when i bought the computer, or so the sales man said. Everything was hunky dorey untill the virus hit. now i skip all over the place like a bot.