Hi,

I think a particular program I tried was disguised malware. When I use firefox or ie, random websites open up, and so I assumed it succeeded in installing something, EVEN though symantec antivirus caught a few files and deleted them, and a quick scan revealed everything was fine.

When I go to direct links everything is quick, however a google search is really slow (doesn't finish), and I can't seem to be ABLE to load google.ca and yahoo.ca at times, but www.uwaterloo.ca loads instantly. I have a high connection speed - speedtest revelaed 6000+ kbps.

When I run adaware, the CPU freezes with the following BSOD line:
0x0000008E (0xC0000005, 0x002F006E, 0xB38F6CF0, 0x00000000)

I also upgraded RAM today from 1GB to 2GB, so I'm running memtest to see if that could be a problem. The laptop doesn't seem to be any faster with moderate tasks - makes me wonder if something's running in the background slowing it down as well.

The laptop is a Toshiba TECRA M4(P4 2.0GHz, Geforce 6600 Tablet edition, 1Gig Ram upgraded to 2 Gigs ++ - http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2474)

That's the main problem, the SECOND is how do I go into the BIOS for this laptop?

Thanks & God Bless

-SurajI had a similiar problem, with Firefox saying "Waiting for google.ca" when I search, but never actually displaying anything. IE6 worked fine, but the problem was apparently a deeply rooted trojan. I don't have an anti-virus and had to clean it out manually via the registry, recovery console, and a look in Process Explorer, and I'd rather not guide someone through such a trouble-prone procedure. Rather I think you should make a post in the Viruses and Spyware forum, as they will be able to give you instructions that are much easier to follow then I ever could.Roger - Spybot Search and Destroy found a few abnormalities. And reports errors on its trojan include file.

Can an admin please move this to the right section? Don't want to re-create the post.

Thanks for all the help!Posted it there already. This topic can be closed.Topic closed.