PC Gurus help please - Laggy pc after virus removal

[SoEm0]

Yeah that is more of a Malware type intrusion. Avast (which does well on actual virus's) wont be able to get it out. I would suggest getting Malwarebytes from www.malwarebytes.org from a different computer. Using a computer that is infected will often times corrupt the DL. Boot into safe mode then install and run. For most of these types I would do a full backup for a client and then a format. More and more of them are attacking the reg files and damaging them. I just find it easier to do a clean install over doing a reg repair.

[Raxe]

Clean install is more reliable and stable than a registry repair too.

[jrobie79]

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407

[KillaCams]

But it has no effect anymore with the speed? Trying to figure out if your computer is now a zombie.

I was thinking the same thing, it ran fine with mcafee before i got the virus, its not the fastest but i only use it for itunes and surfing the web i dont do any gaming so it works for my needs.

Just sounds like you didn't get rid of everything.

For starters, try a 30-day trial NOD32. you can uninstall it afterwards, but it's a very small footprint. When my folks' computer was slow, they had MBAM installed; as soon as I uninstalled it completely and put in NOD32, it found some extra junk.

I'd also try panda anti-rootkit, but ymmv with this one.

At the very least, I'd dump McAfee and MBAM in favor of NOD32. They're both ineffective and have huge footprints (i.e. the programs themselves are so large they slow down your computer, even if it's virus-free).

and yes, giving your hijackthis log to someone that knows what they're looking at sometimes does wonders.

Thanks for the info, i wonder if i can get a refund on the mcafee since i paid for a year

[SoEm0]

Mcafee is pretty much garbage, just like Norton (i think its a virus, since it can completely take over your computer). Nod32 works pretty well, but I always suggest running more than one type of virus/malware scanner.

[KillaCams]

Im going to try some of the scan posted in the link, if its still acting up after that i guess ill bite the bullet and reformat