Ok, my computer has been scanned for viruses and checked and nothing has been found! I also keep the computer clean of extra documents, photos, etc. Today, when I arrived at work, I turned on the computer and double clicked on internet explorer. The browser popped up, but it took forever to load and I couldnt click on the page anytime during the 5 minutes it took for it to load. After it was completely loaded 5 minutes later and unfroze itself, then I could navigate from site to site. It worked fast and did what it is normally supposed to do! However, if you clicked on something and it brought up the information in a new window, then the problem would happen with that window at the beginning until everything was done loading and it would become unfroze allowing me to finally see what was on the page and scroll down. I dont know what is going on! I need help on this one! I called the internet provider and they had me do a barracuda spy removal, and I did that and it found
Update:1 infection, so i removed it and then it said it was good to go....then i defraged it, but that didnt do any good either because these problems have went on all day with new windows for the internet. Microsoft outlook works great and so does everyones computer in this whole building. what do i do?
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Can you run the last known good configuration?
This is going to sound like a rude comment (not meaning to be), but if you are at work, on a network, and other people are connecting to the Internet fine with no issues, then it is most likely localized to just your computer. I read that you defragged your pc (which is good) and ran a barracuda spy removal program (honestly never heard of or used that program) which can be good if it is a trusted company. I would suggest you first run a virus scan on your computer, if that doesn't help then I would suggest using a spyware removal program such as Lavasoft's Ad Aware (www.lavasoftusa.com - choose free version) and then scanning the pc. If after these two instances, if you still have issues, then it might be something with your computer hardware, or software (such as a program running taking all of your ram or cpu), or even your network card / network cable. I would try the few extra steps I mentioned and if you still have an issue you might want to contact your work's I.T. department (computer techs). Hope this helps - Good Luck.
I assume this is a Windows machine? Windows machines are run by the Registry. It's a catalog of all of the files necessary to run the computer and all of the programs. the thing is there is a fundamental design problem with the way the registry is set up. I don't know exactly what the problem is, but I do know what it causes. After so much time the registry will start to completely break down and the computer will start to work slower and slower in more and more programs and situations, until the computer just doesn't work at all without a format. Right now, I would suggest getting all of your necessary stuff off of it and having you or your computer administrator re format the hard drive and get it back up to working condition. It's not anyone's fault, these things just happen at times.
This can for many reasons. Check the website speed, that may have something to do with it. Another thing you could do is to try and install a brand new browser. sometimes the browser you are using is just crap. (I highly recommend using firefox. It is the best free web browser). I would also try defragging everything again, running more virus scans because viruses can be overlooked, and stay away from websites that many people use because that is where most viruses will be. Hope I helped.
Have you done a regedit on it by clicking start run and typing regedit to check your registry. Just check to see if there is some kind of file or software there that is not suppose to be there. If you do see one delete it, And then refresh it. Go to view and click refresh. Dont delete unless you know it is spyware or software you didnt install. By the way I had to do that all the time on windows XP I have never got any spyware or viruses on Windows Vista It is awesome.
try installing all windows updates that are out there to see if that helps. If not, you can try and run a windows repair from the original Windows CD. This will over write most of the operating files to ensure good clean files are loaded. Backup any important data before doing a repair because you never know if something will go wrong...and it can occasionally.
Contact your IT, that's what they get paid for.
Seriously, Some departments run software for sources of viruses or abnormal activity on the network etc. You may have been limited by your server or detected as a security threat. People around you would not be affected and would appear to work good.
You have probably worm blaster W32. Keep your task manager open and see for extra aplications in proccess active. There are meny free programs removers. Get Microsoft update.
Use Firefox, simple as that. IE always gave me weird problems...switch and you'll be happy you did.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/