BCs

Thanks for that thought. It had actually already crossed my mind that it might be a good option.
Also interested in thoughts on Spyware Terminator and Malwarebytes.
Especially malware as i ran a full scan overnight and came back 10 H later and time was till ticking away yet the program had stopped scanning because of an error code 721 (0, 5)

kimsland

Yes, I'd say another Restart may fix that a bit

But johnb35 has a good point, you were very infected and both Spyware Terminator and Norton IS really didn't help (except to continually keep your system slow) How attached are you to these programs? (Note I did suggest already, to use free Avira)

You have a number of startups still loading that are just not required, and I'm also concerned about how much resource Lexmark printer software is taking in Task Manager
There is a good tool here called Startup Control Panel that can help you to remove some of these not required startups http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
Note that disabling the startup may still leave services startups happening with Windows (ie Spyware Terminator)

Did you end up uninstalling uTorrent, or is it presently closed? (I think you may have uninstalled it, and if so well done, especially whilst tring to remove malware

It may be a good time to clean out any System Restore points as well
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...s/mcgill1.mspx

BCs

Performing well, althoufg it has become a tad slower on boot up than it was 3 days ago.

kimsland

Well there is one more (old but good) free program, that may help bootup speed

Bootvis: http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=664

Download > Install > Run (its in Start > All Programs)
On the menu toolbar, click "Trace" > "Optimize System" > Restart (actually it may do this automatically)
Wait for Bootvis to finish optimizing (don't press any keys or run any programs) It may take a while, but it will eventually just close by itself

Then restart and check if its any quicker
Note this program doesn't always speed up start time
Also if you run the Bootvis downloaded program again it will uninstall

Also I don't need another HJT log

BCs

No better, From shutdown to system being ready for use 7 mins.

kimsland

The only thing I can suggest (other than another memtest or possibly Hard Drive diagnostic test)
Is to uninstall Norton fully, and then test again. Note: you can even back up the key, all info here: http://service1.symantec.com/Support...05033108162039

BCs

I know you hate NIS, but we had this problem earlier in the posts. We have never uninstalled NIS and the boot time came back to normal. I know little but i doubt very much whether it is NIS.

This all started again after the defrag.Before that we had boot time back to normal. It is even taking another 30 seconds plus to load desktop once it boots in to windows.