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adomicile2 · 12-08-2003, 06:55 AM

I have recently noticed that when I open a drive and look for a file that everything loads slow. I contol alt del and for some reason explorer.exe is at 100 percent. I have a fast system with a gig of ram and 2 internal drives at 120 and 200 split into 2 partitions of 100 and 1 external 120. I am up to date with virus defs and according to Norton I am not infected. Also no spyware. This is a fairly recent problem and is driving me nuts as I spent alot of money to build a speedy machine and my 2 gigahertz laptop seems alot faster. The slowdown is only when explorer is open. Any ideas, Thanks.

Antec proview case
ADM 2800/ Volcano 11 (not Clocked)
Abit NF7-S rev 2 board
1 GIG PC 3200 (Crucial)
Radeon 9600 Pro
Maxtor 120,200 internals
120 external
500 watt P/S
Lite on dvd/cdrw
Lite on dvd rw
Windows XP Pro

patrish · 12-08-2003, 09:25 PM

Update your antivirus and scan your system.

WORM_APLORE.A installs explorer.exe in your windows/system folder and calls it up by registry. There are other trojans, worms that also "appear" to run explorer.exe but actually are running other programs, or infect or replace the original explorer.exe file.

adomicile2 · 12-09-2003, 07:38 AM

As I said I am up to date and just ran a scan but it is Norton. Could you make another recomendation for a virus scanner .

Bill in SD, CA · 12-09-2003, 07:46 AM

Welcome to TechIMO!!

Online free scan: HouseCall

Might also run Adaware and Spybot

Bill

patrish · 12-09-2003, 07:56 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by adomicile2
As I said I am up to date and just ran a scan but it is Norton. Could you make another recomendation for a virus scanner .

Housecall, mentioned above, is great, and is sponsored by TrendMicro, the PCCillin company. For a paid program, PCCillin is my recommendation; for free, I suggest AVG free anti-virus to be found at www.grisoft.com. Norton is not as agressive against worms as some other companies, in my experience.

adomicile2 · 12-09-2003, 10:26 AM

Thanks for the suggestions. I have updated adaware and no luck also got a2 squared and no malisious code. I will try housecall and thank you for the welcome.