SLOW...SLOW...SLOW

My DELL Laptop 5000e used to smoke when launching programs -- now since I
identified and subsequently quarantined/deleted two viruses using Panda
Software's free online scan, it noticeably drags...worse, the dragging
caused the system to freeze before I could go to the quarantine log at Panda
to see what the viruses were (

I have worked feverishly the past week and more to scan and rescan and
rescan and (you get the idea) with a variety of all the popular and free
online virus scanners, not trusting my Norton SystemWorks (2003) AntiVirus
for fear it was corrupted. I have also used Spybot Search & Destroy and
AdAware, both latest versions with updates, to thoroughly cleanse the system
of critters. I've run and re-run the IE5.5 Repair Tool (I run IE6) and have
defragged using Norton SysWorks. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the
biggest offender of slowness, the FirstClass E-mail Program, in both Safe
Mode (to disable the virus scanner per recommendation) and by choosing
msconfig to not load all startup items. The program still drags ( where
it used to zoom to log me in so fast you could barely see it happen. My
e-mail administrator at work has worked with me to toggle different settings
to speed up FirstClass, to no avail...and yet less than one month ago, it
logged me in with blinding speed...or as my administrator says, there's
nothing wrong with the funcionality of your program, but getting there
(italics) is the problem (handshaking???).

I would SO appreciate help with this -- I'm lost and have almost given up.
If this helps, consider that I used to exit the FirstClass program by
right-clicking the icon in the systray and selecting Exit, where now, even
when I do that, same result: slow...slow...slow -- what used to happen in a
flash now takes at least 30 seconds. File corruption?? Active Desktop
problem?? The FirstClass support people tell me that I have corrupted, or
lost, files, probably as the result of the infections, but which ones??
PLEASE HELP!

Dave

I'm no expert but..do you have Panda running? It's
really effective but also really huge.
Whe I tried it, we couldn't even get the full version
installed on a machine because there simply wasn't room
on the hard drive.
I would assume that it would consume an equally huge
amount of memory and CPU time.
>-----Original Message-----
>My DELL Laptop 5000e used to smoke when launching
programs -- now since I
>identified and subsequently quarantined/deleted two
viruses using Panda
>Software's free online scan, it noticeably
drags...worse, the dragging
>caused the system to freeze before I could go to the
quarantine log at Panda
>to see what the viruses were (
>
>I have worked feverishly the past week and more to scan
and rescan and
>rescan and (you get the idea) with a variety of all the
popular and free
>online virus scanners, not trusting my Norton
SystemWorks (2003) AntiVirus
>for fear it was corrupted. I have also used Spybot
Search & Destroy and
>AdAware, both latest versions with updates, to
thoroughly cleanse the system
>of critters. I've run and re-run the IE5.5 Repair Tool
(I run IE6) and have
>defragged using Norton SysWorks. I've uninstalled and
reinstalled the
>biggest offender of slowness, the FirstClass E-mail
Program, in both Safe
>Mode (to disable the virus scanner per recommendation)
and by choosing
>msconfig to not load all startup items. The program
still drags ( where
>it used to zoom to log me in so fast you could barely
see it happen. My
>e-mail administrator at work has worked with me to
toggle different settings
>to speed up FirstClass, to no avail...and yet less than
one month ago, it
>logged me in with blinding speed...or as my
administrator says, there's
>nothing wrong with the funcionality of your program, but
getting there
>(italics) is the problem (handshaking???).
>
>I would SO appreciate help with this -- I'm lost and
have almost given up.
>If this helps, consider that I used to exit the
FirstClass program by
>right-clicking the icon in the systray and selecting
Exit, where now, even
>when I do that, same result: slow...slow...slow -- what
used to happen in a
>flash now takes at least 30 seconds. File corruption??
Active Desktop
>problem?? The FirstClass support people tell me that I
have corrupted, or
>lost, files, probably as the result of the infections,
but which ones??
>PLEASE HELP!
>
>Dave
>
>
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