SillyDog701

[redhotjoe]

Can anyone help of make some sensible suggestions.

My computer is intermitantly freezing and the only way to sort this issue out is to restart using the restart button. The system is only about 6 months old (a self build) and up to now has very reliable with no issues.
The only recent changes or additions to the system have been a new wireless internet modem system. I have been told this is more likely a memory problem to which I have tried substituting other memory, which makes no difference.
I did have several Trojans on my system following a Virus scan last night but I download a Trojan remover and run this programme.
The System:
Pentium P4 3.0 1 MB, ASUS MB
512 RAM
OS WIN XP SVS PACK 2 Fully Updated
Bitdefenfer 8 Pro Virus Protection

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[rubber_jonny]

Check which processes are running at start up, sometimes if a trojan is running it cannot be removed, also try running several spyware programs as they all detect different infections eg. spybot S&D, adaware, spyware remover etc...

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[rubber_jonny]

Another program i use is called tds3, its the best i've come accross, what it does is it scans your processes for any known trojan mutexes, a trojan can sometimes embed itself within say, an .exe file, which cannot be detected by most antivirus and spyware programs, but tds3 does deep file scanning, which means that it scans every file within every file, (if that makes sense).

Good Luck

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