How do I turn off Overclocking??

[Fyron]

Well first off you have this program running...

C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe

That is a major security hole. Most of the bad things that infect PCs get in through the vast number of security holes in Internet Exploder...

Mozilla Firefox

[Renegade 13]

Imperator Fyron said:
Well first off you have this program running...

C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe

That is a major security hole. Most of the bad things that infect PCs get in through the vast number of security holes in Internet Exploder...

Mozilla Firefox

Hmmm, that's quite strange...as of the time I did the analysis of system processes, I didn't have IE running...however it still shows up the system processes? I just Alt-Ctrl-Del and terminated the process, but it truely is odd that it would be running in the background, especially when I haven't told it to launch for quite some time....although I guess my parents or sisters could have launched it. Still doesn't explain it being present in the background though...damn Microsoft...

By the way, the Firefox link was unnecessary, you converted me to Firefox about 4 months ago!

[Fyron]

hehe. Damned Microsoft indeed. I have Kerio (firewall) set to deny all connections to iexplore.exe.

[Spoo]

Imperator Fyron said:
hehe. Damned Microsoft indeed. I have Kerio (firewall) set to deny all connections to iexplore.exe.

How do you run Windows Update?

[Fyron]

There is nothing new for me, seeing as I run Windows 2000... If I need to run it, I can just remove the block in Kerio temporarily.

[Aiken]

OMG, what a crap is your process list, Renegade (no offense)

Really, first you have some spyware running:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\CMEII\CMESys.exe
+
C:\Program Files\Common Files\GMT\GMT.exe
+
C:\Program Files\Common files\updmgr\updmgr.exe

to remove them use Spybot Search & Destroy or run Hijackthis full scan (from the main window), then check this checkboxes
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [updmgr] C:\Program Files\Common files\updmgr\updmgr.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [P2P NETWORKING2] C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\P2P NETWORKING\P2P NETWORKING2.EXE /AUTOSTART
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AltnetPointsManager] c:\program files\altnet\points manager\points manager.exe -s
and hit Fix checked

plus C:\WINDOWS\System32\P2P Networking\P2P Networking.exe - it's a Kazaa addon afaik and it's responsible for serious system slowdowns and sometimes crashes. It's installed together with Altnet spyware. So uninstall P2P Networking through Add/Remove Programs.

I would also recommend to turn off all this HP utilities if you're not using them.

That is just a first impession, I'll look into another items later.

[Renegade 13]

aiken said:
OMG, what a crap is your process list, Renegade (no offense)
...

I know Aiken...but unfortunately I'm not the only person who uses this computer (my 3 sisters and parents all use it also), so some stuff gets added that I personally wouldn't install! Thanks for the suggestions, and I'll uninstall all those crap utilities and programs as soon as possible. I would also be very grateful for any other suggestions for cleaning up processes that you may have.

Thanks a lot!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Might want to tell the other people in the house what and why.