Computer has been running slow.

[DomHennig]

Why are you upset or giving attitude? I am just stating facts here and I know having a virus scanner is 100% better. I did not say that upset, I just put that out there.

[jholland1964]

What upsets me when people don't run anti-virus programs is they are putting OTHERS at risk and they don't care. If a person doesn't care if he/she gets infection on his own machine fine, but the truth of the matter is running a computer without one is a real danger to unsuspecting others and that just isn't fair.

You said on your other thread, and alluded to it here, that you have

4,000 saved emails, and 1,200 sent e-mails

well I am telling you, somewhere in those 4000 save mails are infections and somewhere in those 1200 sent mails are infections which were sent to others. Now if the infections came onto the computer in just the past week or so then only a few of those mails would be infected but with the numbers found I sincerely doubt that would be the case. Plus, you sent infection to others, they send it on to more people and so on.
Many of these infected files were emoticons and it appears they were on emails, so what does that tell you? You had to have passed these onto others. Plus just to make it full circle these same people are emailing you back so they are sending the infections back to you. This is what upsets me because it is 100% needless and 100% preventable and yet you made no effort to do so.

Your one argument against an anti-virus program is that it slows your computer. But the two I have suggested are two of the smallest and least intrusive But most protective anti-virus programs available. I have installed one or the other on many computers and not one of those computers suffered a slow down of the magnitude that you have claimed, if at all. You and I have similar sized hard drives which similar amount of available space, I have used one or the other of these two programs over the past two years and neither one slowed my computer one iota. The only difference I can see between the two computers really is the amount of RAM installed, I have 1.5GB of RAM you have 1/3 of that amount. The would be one reason for your computer being slower than mine, but not by the amount you have stated and not all of the time.
What upset me was going back through your old threads your first thread here you had a computer running THREE anti-virus programs, two of which were Avast and Avira, I got you down to one AND cleaned out major infections very likely due to the fact that you WERE running three at the same time, now on this thread you show you are now not running ANY anti-virus programs.
There just is no excuse good enough for not running an anti-virus program and putting other peoples computers at risk, I am not even counting your own here. Cost? No, the two I gave are FREE and rank extremely high in all tests. Slowness, no the two I gave both are known not to slow a computer. So if your computer is slow then there is another reason.
One is the anti-virus program is not configured correctly, a second reason interaction with unnecessary start ups and you have several. Three, not enough RAM.

[DomHennig]

What upsets me when people don't run anti-virus programs is they are putting OTHERS at risk and they don't care. If a person doesn't care if he/she gets infection on his own machine fine, but the truth of the matter is running a computer without one is a real danger to unsuspecting others and that just isn't fair.

You said on your other thread, and alluded to it here, that you have well I am telling you, somewhere in those 4000 save mails are infections and somewhere in those 1200 sent mails are infections which were sent to others. Now if the infections came onto the computer in just the past week or so then only a few of those mails would be infected but with the numbers found I sincerely doubt that would be the case. Plus, you sent infection to others, they send it on to more people and so on.
Many of these infected files were emoticons and it appears they were on emails, so what does that tell you? You had to have passed these onto others. Plus just to make it full circle these same people are emailing you back so they are sending the infections back to you. This is what upsets me because it is 100% needless and 100% preventable and yet you made no effort to do so.

Your one argument against an anti-virus program is that it slows your computer. But the two I have suggested are two of the smallest and least intrusive But most protective anti-virus programs available. I have installed one or the other on many computers and not one of those computers suffered a slow down of the magnitude that you have claimed, if at all. You and I have similar sized hard drives which similar amount of available space, I have used one or the other of these two programs over the past two years and neither one slowed my computer one iota. The only difference I can see between the two computers really is the amount of RAM installed, I have 1.5GB of RAM you have 1/3 of that amount. The would be one reason for your computer being slower than mine, but not by the amount you have stated and not all of the time.
What upset me was going back through your old threads your first thread here you had a computer running THREE anti-virus programs, two of which were Avast and Avira, I got you down to one AND cleaned out major infections very likely due to the fact that you WERE running three at the same time, now on this thread you show you are now not running ANY anti-virus programs.
There just is no excuse good enough for not running an anti-virus program and putting other peoples computers at risk, I am not even counting your own here. Cost? No, the two I gave are FREE and rank extremely high in all tests. Slowness, no the two I gave both are known not to slow a computer. So if your computer is slow then there is another reason.
One is the anti-virus program is not configured correctly, a second reason interaction with unnecessary start ups and you have several. Three, not enough RAM.

Your right. I had 3 virus scanners, you told me to remove. And I did.
Then I had none, you told me to update java, iexplorer, get a virus scanner. And I did.

You are obviously way smarter then all of us with computers. Thats why I was curious to see why you were upset? Noone is going after you. I am just telling you that before I ran these scans, and before I installed avast! my computer was working almost perfectly fine...a little slow, and I just wanted to fix it real quick. Now I installed Avast! and my computer honestly takes 5 minutes from turn on to done loading. and 3 minutes after I click firefox to open up. I am not saying its the virus scanner...it doesn't make sense. But what I am asking is, I'm sure there is something in my logs that shows why I am slowing down.

Is there something you can see to help me with?

[jholland1964]

NO way am I smarter than ANYBODY Dom. I am sorry that I seemed upset, I was a bit. It is so frustrating to see somebody with a good computer take the chance of having it "nuked" by not having an anti-virus and also then putting others at risk.
Let's go back to the beginning OK?

Avast is a bit more of a resource user than Avira, though much less than other programs available for pay. One reason I was pleased that you chose that is that it DOES have email scanning, while Avira Free does not.

Let's get things cleaned up first, then we can talk about how to speed things up a bit.
Run HJT again and put check marks next to the following entries:

O2 - BHO: (no name) - {02478D38-C3F9-4efb-9B51-7695ECA05670} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: WormRadar.com IESiteBlocker.NavFilter - {3CA2F312-6F6E-4B53-A66E-4E65E497C8C0} - C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG8\avgssie.dll (file missing)
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {5C255C8A-E604-49b4-9D64-90988571CECB} - (no file)
O18 - Protocol: bwfile-8876480 - {9462A756-7B47-47BC-8C80-C34B9B80B32B} - C:\Program Files\Logitech\Desktop Messenger\8876480\Program\GAPlugProtocol-8876480.dll

When you have the check marks in place then click the Fix Checked button. Exit HJT.
Reboot the computer.

Next thing to check is your Firefox. Make sure it is totally closed down. Go to Start, Programs, Firefox and choose to open it in Safe Mode. Now this is the browser itself safe mode not the entire computer. What this does is open Firefox without all the add-ins and plug-ins turned on, just the basic browser itself. If the opening speeds up then the problem lies with one of those extras in it that is slowing it down. To determine which one is to re-enable them one at a time. You should soon find which one is slowing things down. Also, what version of Firefox are you running?
Let me know if opening Firefox in Safe Mode is any speedier.
After that we will work on unnecessary start up programs and services.
Judy