[dba-Tech] Win 98 problem, possible virus?

I've often thought that Win98se was a possible virus as well ;o).

Other things to try... how much ram is available on the system when
you are trying to surf the web, what verison of IE, and if possible,
are other things running that slowly I mean if you FTP outside of IE
does it still run slow?  how bout FireFox (Mozilla browser).

I'd also try "TrendMicro's online Housecall a/v scanner"




On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 13:33:26 -0400, John W. Colby
<jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:
> Did you check remaining disk space on the system drive?  Is the PC hitting
> the swapfile a lot? Defragged all drives?  Looked at things loading in
> startup?
> 
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
> Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 1:24 PM
> To: dba-tech
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Win 98 problem, possible virus?
> 
> Hi all, got a problem with my dad's pc.
> 
> It's an old Celeron 333 running Win98se. It's plugged into my broadband
> connection and has been running at full speed with regularly updated Norman
> anti-virus on it, and the freebie Zonealarm firewall. The router also has
> the netgear firewall thing on it.
> 
> Within the last couple of weeks, he noticed that the internet connection
> speed has got slower and slower, until now, it takes over 2 hours to
> download a 1 mb file. This is on a 512mb ADSL connection (my pc upstairs is
> still fine). This happens whether my pc is turned on or off, and whether or
> not there are any other pc's on the network.
> 
> We did have a slight problem in that he hasn't got a CD drive, so I had to
> find the win98 driver for my memory stick, and now I've managed to get
> spybot and ad-aware on it and updated them, run the checks and there's no
> spyware on it any more. I've also run the latest version of McAfee stinger,
> the one hit virus checker and remover. That came up clean too. However, I
> had to uninstall both Norman anti-virus and the remnants of McAfee 4.0 which
> hadn't removed themselves completely. I've run a registry cleaning tool and
> made the pc a lot faster performance wise, and all the programs still work.
> The internet is still slow though, preventing me running windows update and
> an online virus scan.
> 
> I upgraded the version of Zonealarm on the pc, and now it won't load. I know
> the file isn't corrupt because it's he same version that I've put on the
> work laptops that use dial up at home.
> 
> I copied McAfee 8 from the install cd onto my memory stick - I've installed
> it from there before, and from a network folder at work - but every time I
> run the installer it locks the pc up and stays hung, I can't do anything
> with it... any ideas? I'm stuck now...
> 
> Jon
> 
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