So my friends new laptop is moving at a crawl. I'm trying to help him but I can't seem to clean it all up.
It's running Vista Premium and when booted into normal mode, it runs real slow and the task manager shows that 800mb of the 1gb of ram is being used (from startup!). But the task manager also shows no programs sucking up that much ram, there seems to be something hidden using up half a gig somewhere and I can't get rid of it!
After numerous scans I've found many instances of Trojan.Vundo and Trojan.Zlob but the ram is still be used up!
I've ran Ccleaner, Vundofix (didn't find anything), ATFcleaner, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (found over 20 infected areas from the trojans), and am running spybot now and have dowloaded SuperAntispyware and will run that afterwards as well.
I just noticed that the Java is out of date and will update that as soon as S&D is done and I boot back into normal mode.
Last time I booted into normal mode after all these scans, it still had the ram used up even though it looked like the vundo trojan files hadn't started back up. What else can be back there?
I'll upload the HijackThis log.
Thanks!
It's running Vista Premium and when booted into normal mode, it runs real slow and the task manager shows that 800mb of the 1gb of ram is being used (from startup!). But the task manager also shows no programs sucking up that much ram, there seems to be something hidden using up half a gig somewhere and I can't get rid of it!
After numerous scans I've found many instances of Trojan.Vundo and Trojan.Zlob but the ram is still be used up!
I've ran Ccleaner, Vundofix (didn't find anything), ATFcleaner, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (found over 20 infected areas from the trojans), and am running spybot now and have dowloaded SuperAntispyware and will run that afterwards as well.
I just noticed that the Java is out of date and will update that as soon as S&D is done and I boot back into normal mode.
Last time I booted into normal mode after all these scans, it still had the ram used up even though it looked like the vundo trojan files hadn't started back up. What else can be back there?
I'll upload the HijackThis log.
Thanks!