Very slow pc, multiple processes

The basics of process and file locking in Windows... If a file is opened by a process, or the file starts the process - that said file is locked by the system, you can't do anything to it. Now, every applications out there that runs on Windows have the same behavior, be it a "legitimate" applications like Winamp, Microsoft Word, iTunes, Windows Media Player, OR an "illegal" application that harms your computer like virus or malware. With that basics covered, there's another behavior in Windows that let's one process communicates with another process, it's called InterProcess Communication (IPC). By leveraging this, a virus or malware can hinder an Antivirus or Antimalware easily, even at times can crash the said AV/AM. Now, if you really want to clean up your system, you can't have the OS running, because of the file locking behavior, you can't clean a running virus, the process locks the files... Some virus even have the ability to re-copy it's "body" if the "body" is deleted by some AV/AM.

Installing and scanning virus/malware in an infected computer is moot to some degree, you won't get a 100% clean system, because you'll never know if there's no other virus running which hinders your scan, or if your AV is not compromised by the said virus/malware. My best suggestion still stands, get the AVG Live CD (or any other AV live CD) a try, or plug your disk to another clean system and scan from there, at least it will catch something, hopefully it will catch most of your pesky virus/malware... Good luck.

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My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Self Built
OS
Windows7 Ultimate 64bit
CPU
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Motherboard
Abit IN9-32X-MMAX
Memory
DDR2 Adata 4GB
Graphics Card(s)
Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1024 and Nvidia GeForce 8800GT 512
Sound Card
Asus Xonar HDAV 1.3
Monitor(s) Displays
Dell 2407WFP and BenQ 2400v and Philips 150v3
Screen Resolution
3840x1200 and 1024x768
Hard Drives
2 WDC 1TB
1 WDC 1.5TB
1 WDC 640GB
1 WDC 320GB
1 Seagate 200GB
PSU
Corsair TX 850W
Case
Cooler Master HAF932
Cooling
Arctic Cooling Freezer Extreme and plenty of fans...
Keyboard
MicrosoftNaturalKeyboard 4000/Apple Alu keyboard/Dinovo mini
Mouse
Logitech G5/MarbleMouseTrackball/PerformanceMX/SpacePilotPRO
Internet Speed
1.5Mbps down/384Kbps up
Other Info
APC SURT 1000XL
Logitech Z-560
Wiimote
Mikrotik Router
Linksys (now Cisco) SD2008 8 port Gigabit switch
Linksys WRT54G (acting as AP)
Apple wireless Aluminium keyboard
Apple Magic Mouse
Xbox360 wired controller
my suggestion before you format. Combofix. better to backup all data.

I know it is for advanced user but its worth to try before you plan to reformat your pc

feel free to ask :)

I want to wait with formatting till I finnish my year, I need lots of programs to hand in Drawings and stuff ( In uni have exams right now), I'm trying every other option possible to scan and delete as much stuff As I can, Every scanner seems to find something and deletes it, al of them were trojans ( See ESET results for exmp in previous post),

When the problem is not solved i will reformat in summer.

Altough it seems all the scanning is helping, now CPU runs pretty normal Stays at 20 % and peeks from time to time, which is normal, RAM running at 1 GB oF 4, most problems seems solved, now its just finding everything (like the backdoor tojan) and deleting them so nothing new can infect my pc, ESET seems a good program but I look around the forums for protection programs best fitted with Win7 64 bit.

If I need a reformat I'll contact via forums ;)
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
SONY-VGNAW41MF
OS
Windows 7
CPU
P7450, 2,13 GHZ
Motherboard
Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 duo
Memory
4 GB
Graphics Card(s)
Nvidia 9600MT
sounds progressing..gud luck and hope your pc maintained that way mate :)
 

My Computer

OS
window's 7
CPU
core 2 quad
Motherboard
gigabyte
Memory
2gb corsair
Graphics Card(s)
ati hd4850
Monitor(s) Displays
lg
Screen Resolution
1600 X 900
Case
power logic
Other Info
none of the spec above is accurate
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