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for the past week anything i try to download (videos) from the net it takes ages to finish or try to play e.g youtube. anyone got any ideas
cheers steve

start run, CMD, netstat -n see how many established connections, more than say 3-4 its spyware

can be uoto 10 in total

If there are no other programs running its defo spyware

Don't include 127.0.0.1 they're local connections.

doesnt really matter in most cases, there should be a max of 4 all together... although they wont be connecting to the internet they maybe still slow the pc down

mmmm dunno about that, unless Vista is different, I've jus installed it (again) and have 17, 8 of which are 127.0.0.1, 3 are IRC, 4 are web, port 80 n 2 others.

My net speeds are fine.

:idea: dunno about vista mate, Dont think theres any spyware that will install on vista

Xp Pro here & have similar.
No spyware detected & speeds are right on the money.

Its shows open connections so it could be programs or spyware, just becuase your speeds are ok now doesnt mean it aint gonna be an issue:nono:

...and just because you've got open connections, doesn't mean it's spyware. I've just looked at my xp pro development laptop, and currently netstat is coming back with around 55 open connections, (and I know there isn't any spyware on the machine). Speed is absolutely fine as well :)

On a basic users computer, 9/10 times it is spyware :confused: stop making this difficult for me :lol1:

;) :D

forgot how to paste it on here so you can see them

Top left icon from the cmd window, edit/mark, drag n select, edit copy/paste.

or type

and it will redirect the output into a text file :)

You always have to go 1 better don't you ;)