File Management Painfully Slow

[natrix]

If I want to manage a file (JPEG, MP3, ... etc) it takes a long time (15-45 seconds) to do anything. For example if I right click on a file, it takes the menu of choices 20 seconds to pop up. If I click an item and press delete key, it takes 20 seconds before the confirm delete box pops up. These are small items, it's not like their big files.

Anyone have any idea why this would be happening?

I have a 2.6Ghz P4, 800Mhz FSB, 512 DDR RAM, XP Home. I have about 40 processes running according to task manager. My HD still has 11 Free Gig's. And my computer is shared on the school network. I recently defragged my HD, but that was in attempt to stop this from happening. Virus scan isn't finding anything either. Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[DanTMWTMP]

spyware? backdoor FTP?

a backdoor ftp is
possible after getting hacked into....possible, and popular among college dormroom computers...open up your ports to see which ones are busy...usually port 6465 is the fav among backdoor FTP's...so in cmd, type in "telnet localhost 6465" and if something comes up, then reformat NOW, install zonealarm pro ($40..WORTH EVERY PENNY, trust me)

oh yeah, to view your open ports, type in "netstat" in the command prompt. If you see anything unusual, or more than 5-6 ports open, then we have a problem.


Also, run adaware and spybot.


install the free version of zone alarm for now to see which of your files are accessing the internet.



also, dang 40 proceses?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!
most people here only have 22-25 MAX. Get rid of everything you don't need. (winamp, quicktime, real, etc etc etc..)

 

[natrix]

Well I typed in netstat, I have about 100 open ports. I think that's a far cry from 5 or 6. 6 of them say established, the others say time-wait.

When I did the telnet localhost 6465 it said "could not open connection to host" ....

I've been using adaware for awhile now, I'm about to download spybot after I reply to this thread.

So how do I close those open ports. All of them that are open have my local address. But some of the foreign address, aren't my IP, or any other number when I do ipconfig.

Now what?

Thanks,
Nate

 

[natrix]

I ran AdaWare, ZoneAlarm, and Spybot. after typing netstat again, I have about 6 active connections.

Spybot did freeze up on me when it got to C2.lop, and never went farther than that. However, it still takes quite sometime for me to manipulate files....What's going on here!?!?!

 

[zodder]

Have you checked in Task Manager to see if you have any run away processes or processes that you don't recognize?

 

[natrix]

Well, I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "run-away" processes, but everything looks ordinary.

As for process that I don't recogninze there's wjview.exe, fs.exe, vsmon.exe, csrss.exe, wcmdmgr.exe, and svchost.exe. One thing I did notice was that there were 3 svchost.exe 's

If any of you guy recognize any of these as hacks, or spys let me know.

Thanks

 

[TrueWisdom]

Restart in Safe Mode and run Spybot again. In cmd, type "msconfig" and then go to the startup pane, and examine your start-up items... generally the process names don't clue you in, but if you see their path (Ex: C:\ProgramFiles\Blahblah) you might have a good idea of what's going on. If you have firedaemon or anything with "daemon" in it running, you've probably got a backdoor ftp.

Also, it's a good idea to reformat every six months anyway. I try to reformat once per semester, at least, just because so much crap gets installed and uninstalled during normal use that it's helpful to start with a clean slate.

svchost.exe is a standard process; I have five running on my comp.

Let me know if any of this helps. Also, what are the stats on your HDD?

 

[TrueWisdom]

Oh yeah, and while you're running Spybot, make sure you "Immunize" your computer against most known spy-ware. It helps a ton.