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dnraikes · 2011-10-03T13:39:08Z

Hi,One of my computers running windowsXP home edition has over the last few months drastically slowed down.It is running norton security suite 2011, and firefox 3.6 is the only browser used on the system.It can take as much as 4 minutes for firefox to come up to the homepage, and on reboot it can take at least 4 minutes to display the desktop.I have gone through the usual cleanup steps like defragmenting the disk, cleaning out the firefox cache etc.I am wondering if the system could be infected with some kind of malware. I have a dd image of the system on my linux workstation and am wondering where to start looking to see if the system may have been compromised in some way or whetehr it is just that the 6-year old IDE drive is just getting ready to fail.Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

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05/10/2011 2:02 am

I have a 8 years pentium old laptop, with 512 mb of RAM, and STILL RUNS OK. I would just rescue the data, wipe the HD, and reinstall the system. If still slow, try it with Ubuntu or Fedora(or any linux), and if is still slow, do a hardware test.

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