Need help desperately

[gonzales]

Hi,

I have a few problems.  I have a dial-up connection and all of a sudden it has become really slow.  I notice that the modem is continuously in use even when I'm not doind anything.  

I have pressed ctrl-alt-delete and it show some processes that I am unaware of.  They are:

hpoevm08.exe and a number of other hp0...

sysweb.exe

htpatch.exe

isafe.exe

alg.exe and a number of svchost.exe.  I realise some of these are important but some are under local service, system and network service.  I delete all these and the extra traffic stops.

I use VET but that doesn't seem to clean them.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thankyou.

[whocares]

Hi,

HP... are probably related to your HP-printer, don't know if they are all necessary..

you can check the filenames/processes with google & http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php
reload the page, if it can't be reached /performance problems

-> e.g.:
HTpatch.exe is part of the SiS AGP patch - BUT unless your processor (and motherboard) supports HyperThreading (HT) and this feature is enabled it will actually SLOW your graphics card by around 6%

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Also try Onlinescanners Trend & KAV (see below) or from www.ravantivirus.com to check the files/the whole PC

or post a logfile of hijackthis: http://hjt.klaffke.de/en so we see what'S starting/running on your PC