R3 - Default URLSearchHook is missing


What does this bit mean, I've never seen that before. I thought it looked odd though?

Did that and It's just the same. I've ran every conceivable check for spyware and don't know what else to do. I'm also getting this sokets trois V1 trojan trying to invade every 2 seconds but firewall is blocking it. :'(

Lona, it's quite conceivable that it may be your ISP on a temporary go-slow.  This has happened to me on several occasions, sometimes for as long as 2 weeks.  Take a look at your server status or ISPr forums to see if any faults are being reported.  But if your ISP is as bad as mine, they won't ever admit to having a problem.  Things just suddenly return to normal with no word of apology.

Do you know Clive, I'm beginning to think you're right. They did report an outage on 19th to 20th May but when I go in now it has disappeared and there is nothing to say it has been fixed. I have emailed them twice and they haven't answered. What made me think it might be spyware is that my email is downloading fast and so are other downloads, it's only browsing that's affected. I have been at this all day and evening trying all kinds of spyware programmes but to no avail.  

Well Simon, I'm at the stage I will try anything. I have run spychaser, spybot, ad-aware, hijackthis and another one I found called the ultimate troubleshooter. What version of Mozilla do you advise.?  

Mozilla 1.6 installed Simon. I am using it just now and just the same symptoms. Jerky mouse and pages loading slowly. . It can't be browser problems that's causing this. I don't know what else to try and pipex aren't answering my emails. I would hate to reformat just to find out it's a pipex fault. I will give it another day or two. :'(

Well, at least you have eliminated IE as being the culprit.  It definitely sounds like it could be spyware, but you've done everything, and Dack would have spotted anything iffy in your Hijack This log.  It sounds like your system is struggling to keep up for some reason.

Have you recently loaded any software, or anything?  How are your resources generally?  How much disc space do you have left?  Not that you download much, of course.  :whistle:  Is there anything in Task Manager which shows as using rersources heavily?

You need to see what processor usage is being made by each application. I'd actually hazard a guess that your anti virus software is playing silly beggers (though I NEVER was a fan of Norton).

Edit:
Just been internet searching and you are not the only one having web slowdowns who has got Norton running - you didn't update it a few days ago did you? Might be worth a system restore.

So did I on 3 pcs, all connected to pipex ADSL, and nothing like you are experiencing has happened to any of them Lona