sojourner. was your dsl connection working ok after you
formatted your H/D.
Your D/l speed should be perhaps 40 to 50 times faster
than a 56k modem depending on the ISP connection.
It sounds as if you still have bugs in your system. Also the new blended threat viruses are extremely nasty.
they can be imbedded in a web page and .......youv'e got it. The other possibility is that the bug has gotten into your memory.
Does your p/c boot up at the same speed as it did before the problems and shut down ok ?
I would be inclined to run some utilities like Ad-Aware ,
Pest Patrol or SpyBot. These programs will usually find and remove most of the bugs and speed up your p/c.
The other thing you may wish to consider is to install more ram......It's inexpensive and will increase the overall speed of your machine. 164mgs isnt a lot given the size of the programs we run in our p/cs.
If you want to check your D/L speed go to this site.....
http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/ it's free and will tell you exactly what your dowload speed is.
let us know how you make out. I'm sure there's someone here that can get you back running the way it was before. By the way which trojan got into your machine? Make sure your anti virus is current and if you
have all the latest updates from Micro Soft.......
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.aspHope this was of some help,
dl65