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[nny]

Sorry about the images but the computer is unbelievably slow - in that I typed this sentence about ten minutes ago and it's still forming on the screen. Please tell me which of these processes are useless or harmful or whatever? Help me hunt them down and KILL THEM?

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[pat-trick.livejournal.com]

Generic.exe - Kill it
AOLDial.exe - Kill it


Quit firefox and start it again.

Download and run: Spybot S&D, AdAwareSE

[jack-infinitude.livejournal.com]

I recommend that instead of AdAware, you download the latest AVG Free. Malwarebytes is also a great program.

[cow.livejournal.com]

Definitely want to grab a copy of Spybot (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html)...I think that's still The Best For This Stuff[*].

Also your Firefox is eating memory like I want to eat chocolate today. If it's been a long-ass time since you quit out entirely and started it up again, you might give that a try.

[*] Disclaimer: haven't used Windows in years, so there might be Better Malware Cleaners out there

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

Firefox is the villain, but I bet it's one of the plugins that's the particular trouble spot. Close FF, and then start it up and disable *all* the plugins associated with Adobe or MS Silverlight. Toodle around the web, do what you do, and enable whatever plugin you turn out to need most. In 4 hours, do the Task Manager thing again and see how much memory FF is using.

If it's way up over 100-150Mb, then the problem is whichever plugin you've been using.

What I haven't figured out yet is what to do *next*. Keep me posted!

[florahart]

My computer is old--like, Jurassic old--so this may not be true of newer critters, but: if I have the windows auto-update thing (wuauclt, top of the second image) and the mcmscsvc (which is something to do with mcafee thinking about its own brilliance) running at the same time, I slow to speeds that won't allow loading a page (because it times out). I resolve this by turning off the win update entirely and telling gcal to remind me to run it on purpose once in a while, and pre-emptively running mcafee's updateydoo a couple of times a week so it doesn't freak the fuck out (OH NOOOO IT HAS BEEN MORE THAN FOUR DAAYYYYYS) on me.

Dunno if that'll help you, though.

[exorcizo-te.livejournal.com]

Grab the "no script" addon for firefox, too, if you don't already have it. You can get viruses from legitimate sites you've been to numerous times previously if they aren't screening their ads well enough. A malicious script in an ad can still mess with you. Web sites can be allowed on a case-by-case basis, but you'll be surprised how much the internet is fucking with you after you run no script for a bit. :)