I have run Ad-Aware, Spybot, CWshredder. I have spywareBlaster. I was infected with gibe.b and mofei.b worms. I cleaned them up but my laptop still runs slow when connected to the LAN at the local library. It seems ok at home. Does my HiJackThis log show anything?

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 6:52:05 PM, on 1/7/2004
Platform: Windows 2000 SP4 (WinNT 5.00.2195)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)

Running processes:
C:\WINNT\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINNT\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINNT\system32\services.exe
C:\WINNT\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINNT\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINNT\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINNT\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\WINNT\System32\ati2evxx.exe
C:\Program Files\Network Associates\VirusScan\Avsynmgr.exe
C:\WINNT\system32\regsvc.exe
C:\WINNT\system32\MSTask.exe
C:\WINNT\Explorer.Exe
C:\WINNT\System32\mspmspsv.exe
C:\WINNT\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINNT\system32\Atiptaxx.exe
C:\WINNT\system32\internat.exe
C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\PANICW~1\POP-UP~1\PSFREE.EXE
C:\Program Files\Network Associates\VirusScan\VsStat.exe
C:\Program Files\Linksys\WPC11 Config Utility\WPC11Cfg.exe
C:\Program Files\Network Associates\VirusScan\Avconsol.exe
C:\Program Files\Network Associates\VirusScan\Vshwin32.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Network Associates\McShield\Mcshield.exe
C:\Program Files\Network Associates\VirusScan\Webscanx.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\1033\msoffice.exe
C:\WINNT\system32\svchost.exe
C:\UnZipped\hijackthis\HijackThis.exe

R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = http://education.dellnet.com/
F0 - system.ini: Shell=C:\WINNT\Explorer.Exe
F2 - REG:system.ini: Shell=C:\WINNT\Explorer.Exe
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Reader\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.ocx
O3 - Toolbar: &Radio - {8E718888-423F-11D2-876E-00A0C9082467} - C:\WINNT\System32\msdxm.ocx
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AtiPTA] Atiptaxx.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Synchronization Manager] mobsync.exe /logon
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Apoint] C:\Program Files\Apoint\Apoint.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [LoadQM] loadqm.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Internat.exe] internat.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [MSMSGS] "C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe" /background
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [PopUpStopperFreeEdition] "C:\PROGRA~1\PANICW~1\POP-UP~1\PSFREE.EXE"
O4 - Startup: Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar.lnk = C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\OSA9.EXE
O4 - Global Startup: Adobe Gamma Loader.lnk = C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Calibration\Adobe Gamma Loader.exe
O4 - Global Startup: Adobe Gamma Loader.exe.lnk = C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Calibration\Adobe Gamma Loader.exe
O4 - Global Startup: Instant Wireless Configuration Utility.lnk = C:\Program Files\Linksys\WPC11 Config Utility\WPC11Cfg.exe
O9 - Extra button: Messenger (HKLM)
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Messenger (HKLM)
O12 - Plugin for .spop: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Plugins\NPDocBox.dll
O16 - DPF: {70A89DB7-5EC2-4790-AC34-0018FC2E61CB} (oucv3 Class) - http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/v3content/ouv3is.cab
O16 - DPF: {74D05D43-3236-11D4-BDCD-00C04F9A3B61} (HouseCall Control) - http://a840.g.akamai.net/7/840/537/2003120501/housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/xscan53.cab
O16 - DPF: {9F1C11AA-197B-4942-BA54-47A8489BB47F} (Update Class) - http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/CAB/x86/unicode/iuctl.CAB?37910.7234259259
O16 - DPF: {D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000} (Shockwave Flash Object) - http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab

I noticed in your running processes that you have SVChost.exe running twice. These are most likely the problem. If you look at your processor usage for these two, they are probably hogging all of the processor time. You can just kill those processes and that should get you speeding up again. Hope this helps

Please ignore my above post, I got mixed up with the process I was talkinga bout, it should have said wsscript.exe and I noticed that you don't have that in your processes. That is the process that was causing me greif, sorry about that.

You are right about svchost.exe. My process explorer shows FOUR (4) instances of it running and at times Services is hogging the CPU. Now how did 4 instances get launched? How can I correct this? Thanks for your help. I really appreciate this forum and I thank the members for unselfishly helping so many users.

This is bad;

O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Internat.exe] internat.exe

I removed internat.exe but problem persists. Services.exe every so often hogs the cpu 97% enven 100% bringing everything to a halt. I am running Windows 2000 with SP4. Any other ideas?

From a forum in Annoyances.org I learned that my problem (Services.exe using 90-100% of CPU)was caused by a large (138KB) HOSTS file. I renamed the file and I am ok now (but vulnerable). Don't know whether this is unique to Windows 2000 SP4.