You have <<Zone Alarm fire wall, Spybot Search and Destroy, Lavasoft
Adaware, Webroot Spy Sweeper and Spyware Blaster>> running. That's somewhat
over the top, they are all using resource and, possibly 'fighting' with each
other. You could reduce the antispyware products from 3 to 2 and, possibly,
also do without Lavasoft Adaware.

You could have too many applications running at start-up.

Part of the solution may be to stop applications running at start up. Have
a look (Windows explorer- Documents and settings) at all Start
Menu-Programs-Start Up. These are only icons so it is safe to delete all
that are not absolutely essential. You could also look at System
Configuration Utility (Msconfig) and untick anything you don't want to start
at start-up - but be careful for some strange results -although they can be
rectified.

Another part of a solution may be to defragment the hard disk.

Yet another possible solution is to clean the Registry using something like
Registry Mechanic.

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway
Computer Solutions

"frank777" <frank777@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Kvidnfm8sekYSUDYnZ2dnUVZ_tunnZ2d@adelphia.com ...
> Hi, I have had virus /Trojans and spyware on my computer a while ago. They
> were all eliminated. My computer is Dell 9200 with Windows XP SP2 and
> Explorer 6. I clean internet temp. files and cookies regularly.
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> I have all the MS critical updates installed and use Norton System Works
> (w/ Antivirus)2006 scan every day.
> I also have installed Zone Alarm fire wall, Spybot Search and Destroy,
> Lavasoft Adaware, Webroot Spy Sweeper and Spyware Blaster, all updated
> regularly. Only things that ever comes up during scans are some tracking
> cookies discovered by Adaware. I even scanned my computer in safe mode but
> nothing showed up.
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> Having sad all that, my computer is still acting strangely.
> It runs slower then it used to, even thou not all the time. It takes quite
> along time for some applications to open and run.
> Sometimes computer won't shut down, just hanging before turning itself
> down.
> I can hear my hard disk running a lot or screen comes back on at random
> (computer wakes up) even when no application is used and no key pressed.
> There are about 25 files in Internet temp. folder and one other internet
> clutter file that can't be deleted either manually or by Norton "One
> Button" check up.
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> Can anybody suggest what to do and how can I be sure there are no
> malicious programs running on my computer?
> Thanks a lot,
> Frank
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