While switching from Freedom Security Suite to McAfee Security Suite, the uninstall of Freedom was unsuccessful; I immediately started having problems with the computer hanging, it could take 15 min. for task manager to appear. I determined the incomplete uninstall of Freedom was possably the problem, in order to complete the uninstall I had to reinstall/uninstall. After a "successful" uninstall, xp won't complete a restart or shutdown. The computer gets to the point where xp completes the "save settings" and reports "sutting down" and never leaves this screen the drive access light is continously lit. A hard power-off used to result in a chkdsk of P:, I moved all files off this drive and reformatted/partitioned the drive. This resolved the chkdsk of P: upon resuming after a hard power-off.
The system paging file resides on this drive in the first/extended partition E: , seperate from O.S. C:\ drive. The computer still exhibits the same behavior when the paging file is set to system managed on C:.
The IE home page will not remain on google, keep returning to IE 6 update. I am unsure of when this started. The only way I have found to stop this is to set SB-S&D to lock the home page and tell McAfee & Defender to allow. I wasn't running all of these different Spyware programs before this problem occured and would like to uninstall all but McAfee after resolving this problem.
I have followed all steps, except the intermediate posts of log files, outlined on "Viruses/Spyware/Malware, preliminary removal instructions" posted here https://www.techspot.com/community/...lware-removal-preliminary-instructions.58138/. The only thing the Spyware packages encounter are tracking cookies & history files.
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The system paging file resides on this drive in the first/extended partition E: , seperate from O.S. C:\ drive. The computer still exhibits the same behavior when the paging file is set to system managed on C:.
The IE home page will not remain on google, keep returning to IE 6 update. I am unsure of when this started. The only way I have found to stop this is to set SB-S&D to lock the home page and tell McAfee & Defender to allow. I wasn't running all of these different Spyware programs before this problem occured and would like to uninstall all but McAfee after resolving this problem.
I have followed all steps, except the intermediate posts of log files, outlined on "Viruses/Spyware/Malware, preliminary removal instructions" posted here https://www.techspot.com/community/...lware-removal-preliminary-instructions.58138/. The only thing the Spyware packages encounter are tracking cookies & history files.
Attached is my Hijack