It's slow in the hoos and I'm at work and it's slow here too, but it's not just the internet, it's everything, to open the start menu takes 30secs!!!
Do what SSK said and check the processes. Click the wee bit that says CPU to find whats using most of your CPU power and end them. Nothing should be hogging your CPU if you are not doing anything.
It was Windows defender that was conflicting. I'd rather have AVG although don't switch of WD firewall, just the anti-virus. It seems to scan every single file that appears including cookies. (happy to be corrected by an IT geek bod)
ctrl+alt+del > Processes > Click CPU > If your not doing anything and somethings using 95% of your CPU end it and google the name to find out if its a virus and how to remove it specifically. System Idle Process isn't a process its just what power your CPU's not using.
aswMBR version 0.9.9.1707 Copyright(c) 2011 AVAST Software Run date: 2012-11-28 14:55:24 ----------------------------- 14:55:24.710 OS Version: Windows 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 14:55:24.710 Number of processors: 4 586 0x1C0A 14:55:24.710 ComputerName: Barrie Lochrie-HP UserName: Dev advocate 14:55:25.537 Initialize success 14:55:35.433 Disk 0 (boot) \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 -> \Device\Ide\IAAStorageDevice-0 14:55:35.449 Disk 0 Vendor: Hitachi_ ESBO Size: 238475MB BusType: 3 14:55:35.480 Disk 0 MBR read successfully 14:55:35.480 Disk 0 MBR scan 14:55:35.480 Disk 0 Windows 7 default MBR code 14:55:35.496 Disk 0 Partition 1 80 (A) 07 HPFS/NTFS NTFS 199 MB offset 2048 14:55:35.511 Disk 0 Partition 2 00 07 HPFS/NTFS NTFS 221925 MB offset 409600 14:55:35.542 Disk 0 Partition 3 00 07 HPFS/NTFS NTFS 12286 MB offset 454912000 14:55:35.574 Disk 0 Partition 4 00 0C FAT32 LBA MSDOS5.0 4063 MB offset 480073728 14:55:35.620 Disk 0 scanning sectors +488395120 14:55:35.714 Disk 0 scanning C:\Windows\system32\drivers 14:55:43.389 Service scanning 14:56:15.744 Modules scanning 14:56:27.959 Disk 0 trace - called modules: 14:56:28.005 ntkrnlpa.exe CLASSPNP.SYS disk.sys ACPI.sys halmacpi.dll iaStor.sys 14:56:28.021 1 nt!IofCallDriver -> \Device\Harddisk0\DR0[0x85ba5aa0] 14:56:28.037 3 CLASSPNP.SYS[86bbd59e] -> nt!IofCallDriver -> [0x84446840] 14:56:28.052 5 ACPI.sys[864a73d4] -> nt!IofCallDriver -> \Device\Ide\IAAStorageDevice-0[0x84451028] 14:56:28.068 Scan finished successfully 14:56:55.056 Disk 0 MBR has been saved successfully to "C:\Users\******\Desktop\MBR.dat" 14:56:55.071 The log file has been saved successfully to "C:\Users\******\Desktop\aswMBR.txt"
True that rootkits will not show up in processes. Malwarebytes has a rootkit remover as well now although is is only in beta stage and could have unpredictable results. http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/mbar/
What a bunch of fannys I had the exact same problem on my daughters netbook with AVG too. Go to C:/windows/system32 open that folder and delete everything inside. Reboot the netbook and Boom nothing
