Hello!
the new update screwed my pc. when freezing started I got worried but i didn't suspected of avast. I manually checked every running process, I ran an exaustive scandisk, I defraged the HD, i ran a virus ( avast! and trendmicro house call) scan, a trojan (lavasoft SE, spydoctor) scan and cleaned my registry (registry booster) and everything was clean. I suspected it was firefox new update because the freezing only happened when I was connected to the internet but it wasn't. So I stoped avast resident protection and the freezing stoped. I unistalled avast, rebooted and no more freezing.
symthoms:
-my pc freezes for 1-3 seconds (no HD activity at all) in intervals of 30-60secs (or more if i'm browsing a lot). only the mouse moves but in slow motion and with the last cursor that was on.
-it's not processor or memory overflow: when memory transactions are at 50% an cpu below 20% it still freezes
-all apps are afected
-clipboard seems allright
-when it freezes while i'm scrolling down a webpage, if i continue i get speaker bips
here goes system/hardware report attached as "repor.txt"
I use XP Pro SP2 Portuguese (original)
all my security tools (avast, ad-aware SE, spydoctor and registry booster) are orignal and latest versions.
This report was made with resident protection running and the system freezing
I also downloaded avast! virus cleaner tool:
avast! Virus Cleaner Tool - version 1.0.209 Unicode
Creating log file: C:\Downloads\aswclnr.log
04-06-2006, 17:18:18
Memory scanning started...
No virus body found in memory.
Memory scanning finished (5,8s).
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Files scanning started...
C:\WINDOWS\system32\CatRoot2\edb.log... file could not be scanned!
C:\WINDOWS\system32\CatRoot2\tmp.edb... file could not be scanned!
No virus body found.
Files scanning finished (51626 files, 0 infected, 715,8s).
Drives scanned: C:
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