Help!What to do..

[QuarkQuarkQuark2001]

I have used my computer hard disk for over 6 months. However, after many installating of softwares, my computer speed went down.Moreover, There are many execution process "eat" my computer's memory.

I believe in some way that I can help improve the rate of my computer.

What can I do ?

[PerpetualYnquisitive]

On your desktop, double click My Computer icon. Highlight your C:\ drive and right click. Click Properties and goto Tools Tab. Run the Scandisk/Errorcheck and then run the Defragmentor.

 

After that is done, press Start button, goto run and type msconfig. This will allow you to pick which applications run at startup by going to the Startup Tab. Turn off things like Quicktime, Adobe Reader etc. to regain some CPU cycles.

 

If you are using Windows 98/98se, ME and XP it is included, if you are using Windows 2000 or 95 you can download it here:

 

http://www.perfectdrivers.com/howto/msconfig.html

 

Under Windows 2000/XP you must logon as Administrator to run or highlight the msconfig.exe and hold shift-control and right click. Your menu will now have the Run As option, allowing you to run it without logging out and back on as Admin.

[mossoi]

There are many execution process "eat" my computer's memory.

I would also check for malware - download and run Adaware (from Lavasoft) to see what that finds.

[QuarkQuarkQuark2001]

thanks

How about a program called "spooler.exe"

Is it necessary for Window startup?

[admiral_ju00]

Last time I checked, the good ol' Microsoft had a recommendation to reformat an HDD about once a year or so.

[Sayonara]

thanks

How about a program called "spooler.exe"

Does it necessary for Window startup?

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32soberb.html

 

You have caught the Sober-B worm.

[PerpetualYnquisitive]

Last time I checked, the good ol' Microsoft had a recommendation to reformat an HDD about once a year or so.

 

I would recommend that you pick up a little app called "Norton Ghost." This allows you to make images of your harddrive partition and then restore them in under 5 minutes. If I lose a harddrive due to virus, hacker or hardware failure, I can restore my system in less then 5 minutes with my OS, drivers and all my appz with the settings that I prefer in minutes.

 

It is the ONLY Norton product that I use, just the ease of system restoration makes it worth the $70 by far.

 

http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/

[QuarkQuarkQuark2001]

Thanks everyone.

I am used to using norton anti-virus and Iparmor

[Sayonara]

I saw something funny yesterday:

 

Norton AntiSpam 2004.

 

How I LAUGHED.

 

 

Did you find Sober-B on your machine Quark?

[QuarkQuarkQuark2001]

What's that?

[Sayonara]

Norton AntiSpam, or Sober-B?

[QuarkQuarkQuark2001]

Sober-B

[Sayonara]

It's the worm that creates the "spooler.exe" process you were asking about, like I said in post #6.

 

If you are seeing that process, chances are your PC is infected with Sober-B.

[Tesseract]

I use Norton Systemworks, it has all the norton programns in it.Including antivirus,cleansweep,password manager,goback, utilities, and web tools.Really good yet more expensive.

[Sayonara]

Or use better tools for free.

 

Whichever.

[QuarkQuarkQuark2001]

How to remove that bad worm

[Sayonara]

I already posted the link earlier:

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32soberb.html

 

Recovery instructions are near the end of the page.

[QuarkQuarkQuark2001]

hahah A virus??

it is called lsass.exe

I scan it with antivirus software, but it didn't show me that's true.

Last, I go internet and type lsass.exe in google web site.

Over one million of web site gives the information-----it's virus

However, I don't think so