internet security problem

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hey, recently I was having a few problems with my internet speeds, didnt thik much of it until it started getting too slow for my patience to handle

so I just installed spybot and found I had 6 or 7 malicious programs, I know stupid of me not to have it in the first place but anyhow used the tool and the computer did speed up however it is still slower than it originally was not much though wouldnt mind but the computer is fairly new, just wondering the best way of getting rid of anything that still might be there?

when I ran the spy bot 2 other messages came up,

microsoftwindowsecuritycenterantivirusdisablenotify
and the same thing again justinstead of anti virus there was firewall written,
when I checked mcafee and the windows firewall it was grand, so anyone have any ideas, I do remember about two weeks ago mcafee and windows firewallswiching off by themselves would that have anything to do with it?

oh yeh and another question does a fire wall come with eircom broadband and f so is there any point in having the windows one on aswell?

I realise this is a bit of a long threadstart, but as Im a technophobe all help is appreciated.

ActorSeeksJob

Pretty sure Eircom BB doesn't come with a firewall, and the windows firewall is pretty bad. Chances are you have some bad malware on your pc, so do this please

Please download the self-extracting version of HijackThis from here:

HijackThis_sfx download

Save HijackThis_sfx to your desktop.

Double-click the file then click the Unzip button. Then close the Self-Extractor window.

Using My Computer/Windows Explorer, navigate to C:\Program Files\HijackThis and double click on HijackThis.exe to run it. If you would like to make a shortcut for your Desktop so it's more easily accessable, right click HijackThis.exe and choose Send To > Desktop (create shortcut).

Please run the extracted HijackThis.exe from now on. Delete any copies of HijackThis.zip that you have saved.

Open HijackThis and click Do a system scan and save a log file. Copy the entire contents of that log and post it here

Shane O' Malley

Actually Eircom BB does come with a firewall and it is switched on by default.

However it is only an incoming firewall and will do nothing to protect you against a malicious program running on your computer connecting to the internet.

Shane