ty 4 the fix link, it took me ages to find a thread on this problem

I already had cwshredder on my machine from an earlier infection, and for a few days Ive been having this same problem, but there were not the normal symptoms (the ones I had last time that is) I only had the ie slowdown. I did find 2 things on my c drive, clearsearch and "second thought" that kept reinstalling each time I removed them with ad aware and manually- last time I checked I realized they were in my recycle bin, and they had me locked out, no access to the files, so I couldnt get rid of them. I saw this post and tried cwshredder just out of curiousity and it sure enough found a bunch of stuff, and the files were deletable after I ran it. This has been very irritating...

But I'm glad it happened because I found this site (this is where I learned about the cws in the first place) and I'll be here everyday from now on... this is my first post, hello folks

I was having the same problems with IE being slow. I downloaded the ad aware thingy and it found 57 items on the first scan! I quickly deleted them all and now IE is fast again!!! Also, I play online multiplayer games quite a bit, and since I did the scan I've noticed that my ping has dropped nearly 100ms.

Excellent program!!
Thank you very much.

I'm having big problems with IE lately..

I've run several spyware programs, including AdAware 6, Spybot search and destroy, Pestpatrol and Spysweeper.

Several spyware programs were found (eg. Lop.com) but they've been removed.. I've restarted my PC and am still experiencing problems but, still very slow..

In task manager, IEXPLORE.EXE mem usage is 16,360 K (one window open - this one..)

It doesn't usually run like this but there is definitely a significant decrease in the usual speed that IE runs. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can fix this, apart from:

Ad-aware
Spybot search and destroy
Pestpatrol
Spysweeper

All these have found stuff, but its all now quarantined/deleted

I'd appreciate any help you can offer.

Thanks

Yeah did you look at all the problems IE has.Take note of how crappy IE is though in similar threads you will see some people suggest a WORM...or a...TROJAN you will get the links on how to fix them.
You also might want to take a trip over to www.BlackViper.com and look at the XP services and choose which "RESOURCE HOGGS" you want to disable.

Not forgot to run the spywareblaster after immunising in spybot??? (update!)

Me Stupid!! I installed firebird a few weeks ago ,I installed the email program ,how do i axcess the email program from within firebird !

Window -> Mail & Newsgroups

never mind its a stand alone email program !!

In IE6 I can axcess outlook right from the top toolbar ,and if i can be serious about using firebird (i do loke the speed of firebird)i will need to be able to open mail from the top toolbar