All of a sudden last night, my laptop got rrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaal llllllllllllllllll sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssll llllllllllllllllllllllllllooooooooooooo ooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww w.
Took a long time to boot, and takes a long time to process any commands.
I haven't DL'ed anything out of the ordinary, as far as I know. (Well, apparently I HAVE, I just don't know it!)
Anyway, I looked in task manager and had "cidaemon.exe" in there... Never had seen that before, so I fixed the indexing settings, and that went away.
I ran Spybot, and it came back OK.
AVG runs every morning - it's OK.
I tried running Ad-Aware SE, and it hung up 1730 files into the scan, "HHCTRL.OCX". After it parked there for about 20 minutes, I canceled it out.
I am running Kaspersky now.
It's just nonresponsive. Like you click an icon to launch a program, and it takes a few minutes before it launches.
After Kaspersky, any thoughts on what's the best next couple of programs to run?
Should I just launch Ad-Aware and let it run til like Friday?
(btw AVG, Ad-Aware, etc. - all up-to-date)
(I'm sure someone will ask for a HijackThis log... I'll get to it when I can - in the meantime, any killer apps to run before I run the log?)