From: "lost2ny" <lost2ny@gmail.com>

| The performance on my Dell Latitute laptop has degraded to the point of
| absurdity. Programs take extremely long times to load or switch, and my
| drive light flickers constantly. I've uninstalled all unneccissary
| programs. I've gone in to MSConfig and disabled all unneccissary
| startup programs and services. I've run complete system scans with
| Norton Antivirus, Ad-Aware and Spybot (Spybot found a few things the
| first run through, but it's clean now). I've used Norton System Works
| and Abexo to clean and repair any defects in my registry. I've
| defragmented my drive and my registry.
|
| The most puzzling thing, to me is that although my task manager
| indicates that Idle Processes CPU usage is hovering around 90%, yet my
| total CPU usage is hovering at around 50%! Shouldn't the total CPU
| usage be roughly 100 minus the Idle Proccesses CPU?
|
| This is really driving me crazy, but I'm loath to reinstall Windows -
| there should be some way to trace the problem.


Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file. http://www.ik-cs.com/multi-av.htm


* * * Please report back your results * * *


--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm