PC running slow after installing spybot.

[strwbs]

Sorry I am a real computer novice so please bear with me.

Both Spybot and Superanti spyware were installed on my PC.  Since running a scan in both applications my PC is running extremely slow. Types of problems range from when I first open Mozilla it takes a long time to open, navigating within Yahoo or even searching within google.

I tried to uninstall both programs via add or remove programs believing that this may rectify the problem unfortunately it hasn't.

I then tried to do a system restore to an earlier time but again this does not seem to have resolved the problem.

Can anyone please advise as to what may be the problem and how I should go about this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks

[paudashlake]

SBSD has a program called Tea Timer, which immediately detects known malicious processes wanting to start and terminates them giving you some options, how to deal with this process in the future.  If you don't have the fastest computer, this may be a problem because it is running int he background and if you don't tell spybot to shut it off, it will keep starting when your computer starts, and keep hogging resources even though you don't know why.

[flameking]

yea. spybot takes 2 much of your processing speed. it will slow down you computer big time. Shut the computer down and turn it back on again. see if spybot is your starting tray, is it is you have to disable it. just right click on icon, small window will pop up and click on option. there you should be able to disable on spybot on start ups.

[Broni]

Did Spybot, and Super detect any threats?

[strwbs]

Unfortunately it was a well itentioned friend who also doesn't have much computer knowledge that was loaded spybot and ran the scans. 

Hi Broni,

From what I can gather there was just general stuff found like cookies.  No major threats.  My virus protection is AVG and I run regular scans.  Having not used spybot before I can only guess at to what I am typing, but the items that were found were "treated" (not sure if that's the right word).

Once my laptop began to slow down my friend then removed spybot by uninstalling it. 

I'm not sure if they did the right thing as now that I'm beginning to look into it shouldn't they have gone back and somehow reversed or taken those items out of quarantine (if that's how they removed the cookies) before uninstalling the program???

As there was no improvement in speed once the program was removed I myself went back and performed a system restore to a previous date when it was operating perfectly.

Thanks

[strwbs]

Can the Tea Timer still be active when SB has been uninstalled?
Could this still be affecting my system in the background?

Looking forward to hearing some advise

Thanks

[patio]

Unfortunately it was a well itentioned friend who also doesn't have much computer knowledge that was loaded spybot and ran the scans.

I would contact him...he may have made some other system changes as well...

[soybean]

Can the Tea Timer still be active when SB has been uninstalled?
Could this still be affecting my system in the background?

No.  And, Spybot is a fine program but using it without using Tea Timer is often recommended.

[Broni]

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by clicking on Download HijackThis Installer
Install, and run it.
Post HijackTHis log.