Within the last few days it has started taking about 2 minutes for XP to startup. I have an AMD 3700+ processor, 1 gig of RAM, and an using XP with SP2. Attached are files from HijackThis and EWIDO. I have also run CCCleaner. Any thoughts?

Attached Files

	hijackthis.log (9.6 KB, 6 views)
	Scan report_20060908.txt.txt (818 Bytes, 4 views)

Hi and welcome to PCHF.

As you have posted malware logs I will move your post into the HJT forum for the Security Team to look at.

Greetings SAVE279, and welcome to PCHF.

Your computer appears not to contain any malware. However, there are a few remnants of software that you have once installed. If you wish to remove these remnants, please launch HijackThis and place a checkmark by the following entries:
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {02478D38-C3F9-4EFB-9B51-7695ECA05670} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: Sandboxie - {E947A403-B614-4FA8-B9E7-E790F0BDC87E} - blank (file missing)
O3 - Toolbar: (no name) - {EF99BD32-C1FB-11D2-892F-0090271D4F88} - (no file)
O3 - Toolbar: Sandboxie - {E947A403-B614-4FA8-B9E7-E790F0BDC87E} - blank (file missing)
O9 - Extra button: Sandboxie Toolbar - {11E506DC-0976-4CDA-BB30-37E60A2F2F46} - blank (file missing) (HKCU)
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Sandboxie - {11E506DC-0976-4CDA-BB30-37E60A2F2F46} - blank (file missing) (HKCU)

Close all other windows except HijackThis then press "Fix Checked". Close HijackThis and restart the computer.


Post a new HijackThis log in your next reply. Also, have you installed any new software recently? Or made any changes to your system?

Attached is new HijackThis log file. I don't recall loading any new programs lately with the exception of TuneUp Utilities 2006. Thanks for your reply.

Attached Files

hijackthis.log (8.9 KB, 1 views)

Maybe it is TuneUp Utilities taking a longer time to load its program features. You could shorten the windows loading time by using msconfig .

Here's how to use it:
Go to Start > Run and type in "msconfig". Go to "Startup". You can disable some of the programs you don't need to load on startup. You can still open these programs even after they have been disabled using msconfig, they have just been removed from the list of programs to load on startup.


Although you don't have anything malicious in your computer, I would still like to direct you to the Now That You Are All Clean / Malware Prevention , AKA "Afterwork" to try to limit the possibility of an infection later on.

Marked as Fixed (as far as malware is concerned), and see you around the forum.