[jcleere1]

A week ago late at nitght I found myself in virus/spyware/malware hell. I did best I could to get fresh docs copied, fortunately had already completed a full backup before. Using Kapersky, Bitdefender, Spyware Dr I tried to clean up. Finally I formated the hard drive to start anew. Loaded WIN XP Pro, motherboard drivers, printer and lastly IE 7. My overall system slowed down so that no matter what I did it ran slower than ond look up things in a library, smoke a pak of cigs (if I still did). Could find no virus problems and have not loaded anything but the bare bones. I have now done this process twice with same result. I am at a loss - please, I need a guru to shed light upon this forlorn one (its late). Thank you all - John C

[SpiritWind]

:D Hi :

I doubt you have a "virus" problem, but something a lot more serious . To adequately check

for "malware" nowadays, I recommend the FREE Version(s) of BOTH "SUPERAntiSpyware"

( www.superantispyware.com ) AND "Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware"

( [http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php] ) RATHER than the 3 you mentioned . However,

since you reformatted the system disk and rebuild it from scratch ( reinstalled Windows and

your Applications ), there should NOT be a malware "Issue" !?

[coastie65]

Hi, As SpiritWind has alread said, I doubt that it is a Malware / Virus issue. The first culprit that comes to mind is the cable from the Hdd to the Motherboard. The only way to check it is by using another cable. There could be a break in there somewhere, thus interferring with the data transfer. You didn't give us any specs on your computer and if it is anolder computer, than it is possible the Hdd has issues and may need replacing. coastie

[smax013]

How did you load all this stuff? Did you use a recovery disk that took it back to "out of the box" condition? Or did you have actually install disks (i.e. you had to install each and every component one by one)? If the latter, where did get the motherboard drivers? Was this a built computer or a manufactured computer?

[jcleere1]

Thanks all. I'm still not sure what it was but I formatted hard drive, loaded WIN 2000 Pro, then upgraded with WINXP Pro. Slowly loaded drivers, hardware, then programs. Lightening fast again. I do believe it was a mean combo that got me and when I try to fix things when I'm tired - not good idea.

Thanks again - John