Firefox takes ages to start.

dreamypuma

Dreamnine wrote: »

Have changed those. I know it's an old computer but I haven't had it this slow on startup before.

I personally find Firefox very slow on the first boot, immediatley after booting the PC up. Once it's up and running restarting Firefox is fine. I've always had this issue on all the PC's I've had, and with all versions. I've been using FF for about 4years now so it's something i've just got used to.

I'd wouldn't want to switch to Chrome or Opera either. I just love the modular style of FF.

aliEnRIK

Uninstall anything on your computer from 'Free Offers from Freeze.com'


Open notepad and copy/paste the text in RED below

File::
c:\windows\system32\affv300053706p4now.sys



Save this as "CFScript"

Then drag the CFScript into ComboFix.exe as you see in the screenshot below.




This will start ComboFix again. After reboot, (in case it asks to reboot), post the contents of Combofix.txt in your next reply

Combofix should never take more that 20 minutes including the reboot if malware is detected.
If it does, open Task Manager then Processes tab (press ctrl, alt and del at the same time) and end any processes of findstr, find, sed or swreg, then combofix should continue.


Download CCLEANER (Click 'DOWNLOAD LATEST VERSION' ~ UNTICK the yahoo toolbar)
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/
Run the top 2 scans (Backup the registry when it asks)

Then run a scan with KASPERSKY ONLINE SCANNER
Post the log here please

Dreamnine

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Uninstall anything on your computer from 'Free Offers from Freeze.com'


Open notepad and copy/paste the text in RED below

File::
c:\windows\system32\affv300053706p4now.sys



Save this as "CFScript"

Then drag the CFScript into ComboFix.exe as you see in the screenshot below.




This will start ComboFix again. After reboot, (in case it asks to reboot), post the contents of Combofix.txt in your next reply

Combofix should never take more that 20 minutes including the reboot if malware is detected.
If it does, open Task Manager then Processes tab (press ctrl, alt and del at the same time) and end any processes of findstr, find, sed or swreg, then combofix should continue.


Download CCLEANER (Click 'DOWNLOAD LATEST VERSION' ~ UNTICK the yahoo toolbar)
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/
Run the top 2 scans (Backup the registry when it asks)

Then run a scan with KASPERSKY ONLINE SCANNER
Post the log here please

Sorry for the newbieness.. Notepad's only giving me the option of saving that as .txt

gaming_guy

Dreamnine wrote: »

Sorry for the newbieness.. Notepad's only giving me the option of saving that as .txt

it needs to be .txt anyway

windows hides the .txt (and known extentions) by default

Dreamnine

Have run that again and Ccleaner, but am having trouble with Kaspersky- it keeps asking me to enable java script, but I have already..

Dreamnine

Firefox's slow start-up seems to be cured for now though..

Dreamnine

Have run Glary Utilities also..

aliEnRIK

Dreamnine wrote: »

Have run that again and Ccleaner, but am having trouble with Kaspersky- it keeps asking me to enable java script, but I have already..

Try running it in Internet Explorer then

If that doesnt work then update java (Which you should be doing anyways)

Dreamnine

IE won't even let me visit that page.. Right, how do I update Java..? According to firefox I have it enabled.

aliEnRIK

If IE wont let you get to the page I suspect your more infected then I first thought

JAVA