SLOW PC Start-up

[oz1222]

Hi, My PC is loading extremely slowly on Startup.  Ive tried to minimize the stuff loading in the begining, but it didnt seem to help.  I am running windows Vista on an HP Pavilion dv6000.   What can I do to help this problem?

 

Thank you,

[David H. Lipman]

Vista; 32bit or 64bit ?

 

How much RAM ?

[Firefox]

A little more info would be helpful, like your computer specs for example, speed, memory installed and such....

Computer and browser slowness are not always malware related

You can find an excellent explanation from AdvancedSetup Located Here

If you like you can provide the logs below and see if we can find anything obvious in them....

Please run the following scanner and send back the logs.

Download DDS from one of the locations below and save to your Desktop

dds.scr

dds.com

Temporarily disable any script blocker if your Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware has it.

How To Temporarily Disable Your Anti-virus, Firewall And Anti-malware Programs

Once downloaded you can disconnect from the Internet and disable your Ant-Virus temporarily if needed.

Then double click dds.scr or dds.com to run the tool.

Click the Run button if prompted with an Open File - Security Warning dialog box.

A black DOS console should open and run for a moment.

• When done, DDS will open two (2) logs:
• DDS.txt
• Attach.txt

• Save both reports to your desktop
• Please include the following logs in your next reply as an attachment: DDS.txt and Attach.txt

  You can ignore the note about zipping the Attach.txt file

[oz1222]

Thank you for the quick response 

 

 

Computer Info:

 

HP DV6700

4 GB Ram

32 Bit Vista

Intel Core 2 Duo processor  T5450 @ 1.66GHz

Avira Antivirus

Malwarebytes anti Malware

 

Logs attached

 

dds.txt

attach.txt

[AdvancedSetup]

Did you setup or install this proxy server on purpose?
 
uProxyServer = 69.169.145.80:3128
 
Can you please run this scanner and post back the log.
 
Please download MiniToolBox save it to your desktop and run it.

Checkmark the following check-boxes:

• Flush DNS
• Report IE Proxy Settings
• Reset IE Proxy Settings
• Report FF Proxy Settings
• Reset FF Proxy Settings
• List content of Hosts
• List IP configuration
• List Winsock Entries
• List last 10 Event Viewer log
• List Installed Programs
• List Devices
• List Users, Partitions and Memory size.
• List Minidump Files

Click Go and post the result (Result.txt). A copy of Result.txt will be saved in the same directory the tool is run.

Note: When using Reset FF Proxy Settings option Firefox should be closed.

[oz1222]

I dont think I set up that ProxyServer...What does that mean? Virus?

 

Attached is the log.

Result.txt

[AdvancedSetup]

Well the computer event logs show that the computer is having issues for some reason.  It may or may not be related to an infection but having a proxy set that you're not aware of can potentially be a sign of an infection.

 

I would suggest following the advice from the topic here Available Assistance for Possibly Infected Computers and having one of the Experts assist you with looking into your issue.


Thanks