Pages not loading unless I reload

Okay this is getting really annoying. I have XP, on a laptop running firefox(latest) and everytime I visit a webpage, it acts like its loading, but if I leave it it never loads. But...if I hit f5 a whole bunch, or Alt-D then Enter a couple of times it finally loads. Ad when it does load, it's fast.

But everytime I first visit ANY page it just doesnt load. And sometimes after pages have already loaded, the loading circle in the firefox "tab" still "loads". It's really wierd and annoying. I have high speed internet and my PC never used to do this until recently. I did have google chrome before and it started doing this, so I switched back to firefox because I thought it was the browser.

But its still doing it with firefox!! Please help, its so frustrating!!

[Moderator]

What happens with IE?

And you said this started recently. What happened just before the problem arose (new hw, sw, virus, error, etc)?

[Moderator]

Uninstall Chrome...
Re-boot.

Uninstall Chrome...
Re-boot.

I have already done that. Reboot=Many times. Same thing with IE. Nothing happened before this started happening. I have recently formatted hard drive and reinstalled XP, but Firefox Chrome worked fine for a while before this started happening.
Then I switched back to Firefox, and it was still happening.

 

I have recently formatted hard drive and reinstalled XP

What was the reason for it?

What was the reason for it?

Crazy virus that was getting worse and worse, EF couldn't even help me fix it it was that bad.

It would automatically shutdown any virus scanners and put porn shortcuts on my desktop.

Close Firefox. Go Start>All Programs>Mozilla Firefox, click on Mozilla Firefox (safe mode). Same thing?

[Moderator]

Are you certain you formatted the drive?

Close Firefox. Go Start>All Programs>Mozilla Firefox, click on Mozilla Firefox (safe mode). Same thing?

Yep.

And Yes I am certain, I didn't even do it myself, I took it to a computer services place to do it 

[Moderator]

Yep.

And Yes I am certain, I didn't even do it myself, I took it to a computer services place to do it 

Then you can't possibly be certain unless you stood there and watched them do it. It sounds to me like your system may still be infected.

Buut,, its not. I've done scans with AVG and MBAM. So... well I guess it could still be but I'm sure it's not because there are no other symptoms.

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And you may be right. But for now none of us have any other explanation, so why not post a hijack this log in the malware section of this forum just to be 100% certain?

Yea, okay.. ill do that