Windows explorer is broken?

[mormreed 0]

does anyone know what's up with this? every time I start Windows Explorer (WE) I go through a few folders then it dies... I know it's not the trojan.stwoyle any help would be great and system specs:

 

Mainboard : TOSHIBA HBT10

Chipset : ATI Radeon 9100 PRO IGP

Processor : Intel Celeron M @ 1400 MHz

Physical Memory : 1,280 MB (1 x 256 DDR-SDRAM and 1 x 1,024 DDR-SDRAM )

Video Card : ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility 9200 IGP

Hard Disk : TOSHIBA (40 GB)

Hard Disk : WD (160 GB)

DVD-Rom Drive : MAT****A UJDA750 DVD/CDRW

Monitor Type : 20 inchs

Network Card : Atheros Communications Inc AR5005G 802.11abg Wireless NIC

Network Card : Realtek Semiconductor RT8139 (A/B/C/810x/813x/C+) Fast Ethernet Adapter

Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 5.01.2600 Service Pack 2

DirectX : Version 9.0c

[Sonic 296]

Do you get any error messages popping up before it crashes?

[Doctor Destiny 41]

Try getting rid of the VIRUS! Get avast! and schedule a boot up scan. That **** works wonders.

[TheBlackOut 7]

Lol, you know you have the trojan and not getting rid of it?

 

Like having a curable STD but saying, "naw, I want it. "

[sith_wampa 6]

He doesn't have a virus. He's just an idiot with hacking software. :roll:

[Luk3us 63]

Ah **** it, just format and start again.

[TheBlackOut 7]

There is a repair feature on the XP disk...

[mormreed 0]

I looked for all the signs of the trojan and nothing showed, that was the most common cause I saw and no I get no error messages, just windows explorer starts taking up like over 60k mem usage and almost all my processor then it takes a minute or 2 for task manager to come up and another minute or 2 for me to end the process because it is sooooooo laggy and all of this happens randomly no matter what folders or files I am looking at I'll try Avast but don't know what good it will do, I ran a bunch of online scans and none of em found anything also i ran spyware doctor a few days ago, as you may have seen in the pic of the day thread :roll: and I'm too lazy to run a McAfee scan cause it takes too long, and last time I switched off McAfee bad things happened so don't tell me to go to the free anti-virus and firewall stuff because it way f***** up my computer last time, I really hope it isn't any of the hacking software I got, hopefully my teacher didn't lie but he might have so I'll try getting rid of all that too thanks for the help so far and sorry for the long post

 

Edit: just happened again, took up 99% CPU and 4k mem

[sith_wampa 6]

Was that a sentence?

[mormreed 0]

I don't like periods...

[JahSpoR 0]

probably some nasty trojans using all your CPU.

 

It doesnt seem to be a hacker annoying you. He would just look at your explorer while you are doing banking stuff

[mormreed 0]

no, I'm pretty sure that I don't have a hacker, but I have a lot of hacking programs that I used in this class I took on game hacking... If anyone wants em I can give you a url, pm me

[TheBlackOut 7]

If you're too lazy to run a full system scan, that's your problem, and we really can't help you.

 

It's not hard, do it while you sleep, eat, are out shopping, w/e... Cause once you do delete all the viruses that McAfee says to delete, then either the problem is solved or just reformat/repair XP using XP disk.

 

Run McAfee, delete all it says, then uninstall McAfee and get Avast! or Nod32. I had McAfee, it either blocked everything or sucked up my system resources, Nod32 is awesome.

[mormreed 0]

I'm gonna run an avast scan tonight... boot time scan, and I get McAfee for free so still I don't spend money on anything, my parents get comcast cable, gave me an e-mail acc on it then Comcast was like hey free McAfee!!! and I figured eh it's gotta be good I guess