Slow speeds after Windows Update

[Terry L]

I posted this once before but didn't get a response. I
have looked around for similar posts but did not see any.

Working on Mom-in-laws machine...

Had a previously not-updated ME machine on dial-up which
became infected with several virus's/adware. Cleaned it
up using norton and ad-aware and spybot. System worked
fine after but none of the windows patches/updates had
ever been installed. Did not have the time to wait on
downloads so I ordered the Disk's from MS. Received and
installed all updates with the disks. Now she's
complaining of slow interned speeds (to the point of
making a pot of coffee while waiting for Yahoo weather to
open).

I will try to disable NAV when I'm there to see if it
makes any difference, if only because so many posts have
been devoted to it...But does anybody have any suggestions
as to what the update could have done/installed that would
slow the speeds so much? Could any unneeeded (for her
purposes) patches like maybe DirectX slow it?

It is the only thing that I did that day that could have
made a difference.

Thanks

Terry

[Noel Paton]

The most likely culprit is NAV - as you have obviously realised!<g>
The other major player is spyware - Ad-Aware and Spybot can't catch
everything, so

Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove what is almost certainly
a variant of the CoolWebSearch hijacker.
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html

Use CWShredder, the removal tool:
http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip
http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/tools/CWShredder.exe
http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip

If that fails - try HiJackThis - search for it on Google.


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or
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2001/Mar01/Mar27pmvp.asp

"Terry L" > wrote in message
...
> I posted this once before but didn't get a response. I
> have looked around for similar posts but did not see any.
>
> Working on Mom-in-laws machine...
>
> Had a previously not-updated ME machine on dial-up which
> became infected with several virus's/adware. Cleaned it
> up using norton and ad-aware and spybot. System worked
> fine after but none of the windows patches/updates had
> ever been installed. Did not have the time to wait on
> downloads so I ordered the Disk's from MS. Received and
> installed all updates with the disks. Now she's
> complaining of slow interned speeds (to the point of
> making a pot of coffee while waiting for Yahoo weather to
> open).
>
> I will try to disable NAV when I'm there to see if it
> makes any difference, if only because so many posts have
> been devoted to it...But does anybody have any suggestions
> as to what the update could have done/installed that would
> slow the speeds so much? Could any unneeeded (for her
> purposes) patches like maybe DirectX slow it?
>
> It is the only thing that I did that day that could have
> made a difference.
>
> Thanks
>
> Terry