Re: Sticky Computer Problem:

ccproxy.exe is a Norton Antivirus file. The other two are windows processes
and should be running. See anything running in the processes that is using a
high percentage of the computer processor? Just a thought here. My Norton
computer protection and windows update both try to run at start up and
search for updates. Takes several minutes for all that to stop. In the
meantime computer is slow as hell, acts as you describe.

Gary H
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Fedor_DeGazz (AT) wrote:
"Robert" <magineeer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a Dell Dimension 8200 computer, running with XP Home Edition
and am connected to the Internet via DSL. It usually is fairly smooth
running and fast enough for my needs. A few days ago when I was about
to turn it off there was an alert saying to turn it off to in order to
download updates. I had seen this before so I wasn't alarmed. However,
the next day when I turned on my computer the desk top loaded as
normal but Internet Explorer doesn't function at all and my other
applications are slowed down considerably. I have over 25 gigs of free
space on my hard drive so it's not a matter of storage and I haven't
added anything new and there's only (1) game on it, Jedi Knight, Jedi
Academy. It acts as if there's a virus. I have Norton Antivirus, A-
Squared, and Spybot. I have run all three and only Spybot came back
with anything saying my Microsoft security was disabled which I
believe is normal since I'm running Norton. It won't let me do a
System Restore either no matter what date I choose. I finally tried
disabling the Norton Antivirus and it finally let me online but the
computer is still 'not right'. It doesn't let me see my email yet
loads other pages as normal and if I try and do anything the
application hangs up.
It's as though my system is in a locked loop and cannot access the
Internet as I normally did. It shows that I have an Internet
connection but whenever I enable Norton I get an alert which says that
IExplorer is attempting to logon to the Internet (recommended): and
shows proxy settings detected and just hangs there,..... whenever I
click ok the alert it comes right back. I was actually thinking maybe
I should re-load my drivers for my keyboard? Thinking I may have hit
something by accident? Any suggestions or advice would be
appreciated.


Thanks,
Robert

Post this to one of the Windows XP newsgroups (there are several
groups
that begin with "microsoft.public.windowsxp.????") and see if you can get
a
reply from one of the Microsoft MVPs. They may be able to help. They're
supposed to know about these things. Or try doing a manual Windows
Update;
you'll find the link to it at the top of the Programs menu after you
click
the Start button.. Usually with XP it downloads the updates while running
and connected, and then installs them while it's shutting down, assuming
an
update that needs Windows to shut down to finish installing. Many don't
in
XP. If you let it update your Internet Explorer, it will change to
version
7. I tried the beta version of that and quickly decided I didn't like it
and
went back to version 6. I use the Opera web browser most of the time
anyway.
For reasons such as that, I do not allow automatic updates; I let it tell
me
when updates are available but I decide what to install and what not to.

Fedor




There does seem to be some suspicious programs running. At least I
don't know what they're for, one is CCPROXY.EXE and the other is
AppSvc32.exe, there's also svchost.exe
I certainly wouldn't want to delete programs that I need and if they
were viruses I would have thought one of my scans would had caught it?
I've tried running Windows update and Microsoft update but instead of
going to the page to run the test it comes back with an instruction
page to add the site as a trusted page with links provided. The
problem is that to add a link to the Trusted Site page it has to have
an 's' and only a few do. So it doesn't work because you can't add all
the links. As I said, it seems to be stuck in some sort of loop, and I
do have my updates set on automatic. Isn't there a way of freeing up
of the computer without loss of data? I also checked the connections
and powered off the Router and then powered it back up. Any
suggestions?


Thanks,

Robert



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