Help Me Please! My Comp is Slowww....

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Hello, I have a 2.0 Pentium 4 with 80GB HD and 512 MB ram. My computer has been running fine for the past year, but this weekend it seemed to have caught a virus or something.
I have been spending the last couple nights trying to solve the problem. I recently installed Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition, but I think its scanning is slowed down by my computer.
When I open up the Windows Task Manager, my CPU usage is always (since yesterday) 100%!!!! I then tried to look at the processes to look for what is sucking up my mem usage, and came across something very odd... When I sorted them from highest to lowest in "CPU" column, I see processes such as "TqFgN9.exe" , "Yco0b3.exe" , "Ozfgq88m.exe" , and "XxxohNxV.exe" . As soon as I end these processes (they usually take up about 80 CPU) they magically reappear a few seconds later! My CPU usage goes down to around 7% for that short time untill it comes back or another process takes its place. I tried searching for those files on my computer, but I could not find them, only a .pf file. What is that?
I have been running Ad-aware for a few months now, and it hasn't caused me any problems. I ran it Friday night, and afterwards I noticed a significant decrease in system performance. It said it could not delete a certain .dll file, but that's all I can remember... Is it typical to see slower performance after running ad aware? I've restarted my computer a number of times.
I installed spybot-S&D and ran it and it didnt seem to help at all.

Please help me!!! I miss my fast computer........ :sad:

definately sounds like spyware, *make sure you have the latest greatest definitions for spybot and adaware* before you scan. they shouldn't be slowing down your system, it's the spyware that's slowing it down.

check this topic for more tools to fix spyware.

Please do not post in more than one thread with the same problem. This thread is locked as Craig has provided the same solution I did on the other thread.