Is my hard disk screwed?

[Train]

Nothing unusual for one AV to find something another misses. That is why we suggest running 2 more, not counting the one you have installed.

The AV people are playing catch up and thus all AV programs miss somethings.

[chupichulo]

OK, here's an update. I've done a disk check on reboot as per instructions from Train and I've done another one including

"When the pop up appears
Check both boxes, fix file system errors, recover bad sectors,"

as per instructions from Lethal Revenge. Takes forever. Problem persists.

I've done scans for malware with;
Panda, (which I paid for!!!!) Ad-aware, Spybot, Housecall, Trojanscan (windowssecurity.com). Rogueremover, (to eliminate WinAntivirus which Panda was unable to delete.)

Each one seems to find something different. I delete all suspect files found.
Mostly cookies. Problem persists.

Allow me to restate the problem. CPU is at 100% for a long time on startup. Picture and audio are stuttery on streaming vids, same with music from windows media player, radio.
Windows jingle on startup is awful, but seems to be OK on shutdown
I can live with my computer like this, but it ain't what I paid for. I don't find it slow for general web surfing but I don't want to download and burn any tunes while it's like this.

Having learnt the hard way how easy it is for these nasty malware things to get in, I'd like to know just how much I have to do to keep them out.
Seems to me if I run a scan every day it will find something, and here's me thinking I had AV protection, (NOD 32)

..... which I've just noticed an ad for on the right.
What it lacks in bells and whistles, More than makes up for in sheer AV muscle.

I think maybe the people who make the malware are the same ones selling programmes to eliminate it. Nice little earner!

[Train]

What surprises me, is I ran for a year with no antivirus or any other protection other than a router and a firewall and get nothing other than the bad cookies.

Finally chickened out and installed eTrust AV after 15 months. And my history looks like a case of do nOT go there tutorial.

Of coarse when the Information pops up, I know there more than likely is something I do not want on that site.

[lgbpop]

http://discussions.virtualdr.com/sho...d.php?t=167915

Still waiting for that HijackThis log.

[chupichulo]

Still working down the list of things to do before hijackthis.
your link doesn't work, iggy... file not found Jupiter media?

[lgbpop]

Might be a glitch somewhere. I just tried it, it's working fine at the moment, khupi.

[Train]

There was a glitch yesterday, working fine at the moment.

[chupichulo]

Posted my HijackThis log in Centre for Disease Control.

[bailodesnudo]

Hi everyone, i recently just got the same problem that Chupichulo got. I have the same laptop acer travelmate 4650, and after leaving it on for 2 days to download a large file (virus free i am certain) i returned to see that my cpu started to get slow. Thinking it was the overheating i turned it off, but every time now its been slow and lagging. The windows jingle is choppy, audio/video is laggy, and i am running out of answers. I think it may be a hardware problem but that is a pain, and i want to absolutely rule out any software issues. I haven't had the chance to reformat my laptop, but i think if i do that and the problem still persists then i know its with my harddrive.