new virus or something?

[SIRCOOKS]

recently my computer is running slow as hell,, i just built it, its a p4 3.0 ghz 8000fsb with 1gb of ddr ram behind it, with a 128 radeon 9200 8x agp video card, usualy i cann uzip a . rar or .tar file under 5 minutes maybe less, but know its taking me almost a half hour for the same thing, same a s transferring files from one internal drive to another...

i have run ad aware many times, removed any unwanted things, i have norton 03 installed and updated as off september 11th, and that isn't picking up anything, and even that is running slow, it literally stops at a certain point. also i cant keep my homwe page, i think like an unknown trojan is there or something, and everytime i reset it to hotmail, it comes back and gives me another webopage upon opening.

does anyone know of any viruses i dont know about, is there anything else i should do, every program i have installed i need.....im just fed up because i can do things as quick as i use to.....i even defragged a couple of times, and that didn't even work...

holla back plz

 

[Praetor]

8000fsb

I assure you that it's not 8000FSB.

usualy I cann uzip a . rar or .tar file under 5 minutes maybe less, but know its taking me almost a half hour for the same thing, same a s transferring files from one internal drive to another...

Check DMA/PIO

 

[SIRCOOKS]

would i have to go to the task manager to bring these up, how would i get to these

 

[Lorand]

gives me another webopage upon opening

What page is that?

 

[jesbax]

i don't know about a virus. It is more likely a worm. I had a customer with the same problem and only thing i came up with is to erase the hard drive and put win xp back on it.

 

[Praetor]

would I have to go to the task manager to bring these up, how would I get to these

1. Start --> Run --> devmgmt.msc
2. Find your HDD controllers, goto properties, advanced and then make sure they (try to) use DMA mode

i don't know about a virus. It is more likely a worm

Worm, virus, they all classify roughly the same and semantics isnt so important

 

[SIRCOOKS]

also, everytime i go to certain websites, it just automatically switches to another....this !@#$ is !@#$%^& with me....

 

[Lorand]

You didn't answer my question:

gives me another webpage upon opening

What page is that?

 

[SIRCOOKS]

the homepage i now default to is http://www.iwantsearch.com..is this associated with some virus?

 

[Lorand]

Try this: in "Control Panel" at "Add/Remove Programs" uninstall "SBSoft".

 

[SIRCOOKS]

so is that webpage assocviated with some type of virus or vicious spyware...?

 

[Praetor]

so is that webpage assocviated with some type of virus or vicious spyware...?

temp = Boolean (Did you default to that webpage?)
If temp = true then Answer = null else Answer = yes

 

[SIRCOOKS]

how do i defrag my registry, with what program......
ill check to see if i did install the chipset ide driver, and do so again...how would i know if my hd is crashing, and what the helll and how would determine if i had a memory leak...holla back

 

[Praetor]

how do i defrag my registry, with what program......

There's no real need to... by the time its critically required you're more than due for a reformat

ill check to see if i did install the chipset ide driver

It better be installed

how would i know if my hd is crashing

Uh... it wont work or random strange crap will happen.

what the helll and how would determine if i had a memory leak.

Buggy code + careful user