Computer has been running slow.

[DomHennig]

Is this the general release 3.5 which came out on June 30 or the beta version?

How can I tell? I just clicked - Help. Check for updates. Update.

[jholland1964]

You also really need to get those emails OFF the computer. We know some of them are infected.

[DomHennig]

You also really need to get those emails OFF the computer. We know some of them are infected.

I tried that. I went to the file, and tried dragging it into windows media player to burn it (The program I use when i used to burn songs) and I can't.

Do I need to download a burner?

[jholland1964]

When did you update it? If it was BEFORE June 30 then it certainly wouldn't be 3.5 it would be 3.11
With Beta (test) versions of anything they generally are not offered and a regular update, you have to opt to try it out.
To check for sure in Firefox go up and click Help, About Firefox. It will show you the version number. If it says 3.5 beta there then it's the beta version. Look in Add/Remove. Click on Mozilla Firefox and it should tell you the date you installed it. A lot of people are having problems with this new version. Many of the add-ins have not updated yet so are unusable or don't work properly

[DomHennig]

When did you update it? If it was BEFORE June 30 then it certainly wouldn't be 3.5 it would be 3.11
With Beta (test) versions of anything they generally are not offered and a regular update, you have to opt to try it out.
To check for sure in Firefox go up and click Help, About Firefox. It will show you the version number. If it says 3.5 beta there then it's the beta version. Look in Add/Remove. Click on Mozilla Firefox and it should tell you the date you installed it. A lot of people are having problems with this new version. Many of the add-ins have not updated yet so are unusable or don't work properly

I installed it yesterday. And it just says 3.5

[jholland1964]

Windows media player isn't going to burn a data disk. There is usually a built in burner program with XP. Right click on the file and choose Send To...you should get an option to send it to a cd. See my attachment:

The Firefox is the general release version then.
You have to give me time to get steps together to help you speed the computer. I PROMISE you it is NOT the anti-virus program. Have you emptied all temp files, have you run a defrag recently?

[DomHennig]

A month ago. I'll try those. But would it just happen out of nowhere? I mean, everything was fine...until I ran all those scans, and everything else.

[jholland1964]

A month ago. I'll try those. But would it just happen out of nowhere? I mean, everything was fine...until I ran all those scans, and everything else.

Sorry Dom but this is NOT true. You posted THIS THREAD
on June 28th. You clearly stated

My computer is slowing down real bad, and I think it's from the number of E-Mails I am keeping in Microsoft Outlook.

On the 29th cauzomb replied that you should follow the instructions on the sticky and make a post here.
You posted the scan results here on June 30th and you obviously had a huge number of infected items (1377 to be exact) which were removed. You also just now said you installed Firefox 3.5 on the 30th. Was that before or after the scans?
The scans have absolutely NOTHING to do with the slow down of the computer. There was nothing removed which would have caused a computer slow down by removing it.
Many people are having problems with this new Firefox version, one of them being that their Flash program no longer works, lots of the themes don't work yet either.

You stated that it was very slow before removals and is still slow after removals. There may be a chance that this malware and trojan caused some damage to some key files on the computer which would definitely cause a slow down.

Is it slow all the time or only when online?

[DomHennig]

Well, I didn't seem to notice a speed increase opening firefox in safe mode. So there are no viruses on my computer, no spyware, bugs...

and it still is running slow?

[DomHennig]

I just deleted about a thousand e-mails and my Outlook.pst file still says it is 807,505KB...

And yes I deleted it from my deleted items folder.