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DJRCyberAVS · 08-28-2003, 02:38 PM

If someone is feeling helpful ;)

XP Pro running like a bag of shit... running slow in other words. Hard Drive also sounds unusually busy.

Browsing speed is very slow and I'm on Broadband. Lots of images on GFY are showing as broken, and when pulling sites out my favourites, a lot of them are coming up 404 and I'm having to hit refresh 3-4 times... including on GFY to get them to come up. IE is also taking a long time to respond, sometimes hanging for a few seconds. E-mail is also slow...

I've got all XP/IE updates and critical fixes.
I've run a virus check, with the latest update... sod all found.
I've cleared temp directories, history and cache.
I've cleared system restore points.
I've run HiJack This, SpyBot S&D and also SpySweeper to get rid of nasties... nothing major found.
I'm running Sygate Personal Firewall and it's showing I'm getting hit with these:-

ICMP scans/pings On Port 8 at rate of about 10 per minute. The attacks appear to come from users on my ISP, probably spoofed or scanned. Richard from Realm has already mentioned the Welchia Worm... I've run the scan and I'm showing clean. Could this shit be slowing me down? This has been going on two days now and it's started to piss me off now..

Thanks to anyone who offers a fix which doesn't involve formatting or changing OS ;)

08-28-2003, 02:38 PM
DJRCyberAVS Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: WeebleLand Posts: 493	XP Tech Help Needed If someone is feeling helpful ;) XP Pro running like a bag of shit... running slow in other words. Hard Drive also sounds unusually busy. Browsing speed is very slow and I'm on Broadband. Lots of images on GFY are showing as broken, and when pulling sites out my favourites, a lot of them are coming up 404 and I'm having to hit refresh 3-4 times... including on GFY to get them to come up. IE is also taking a long time to respond, sometimes hanging for a few seconds. E-mail is also slow... I've got all XP/IE updates and critical fixes. I've run a virus check, with the latest update... sod all found. I've cleared temp directories, history and cache. I've cleared system restore points. I've run HiJack This, SpyBot S&D and also SpySweeper to get rid of nasties... nothing major found. I'm running Sygate Personal Firewall and it's showing I'm getting hit with these:- ICMP scans/pings On Port 8 at rate of about 10 per minute. The attacks appear to come from users on my ISP, probably spoofed or scanned. Richard from Realm has already mentioned the Welchia Worm... I've run the scan and I'm showing clean. Could this shit be slowing me down? This has been going on two days now and it's started to piss me off now.. Thanks to anyone who offers a fix which doesn't involve formatting or changing OS ;)