Virus Or System Error?

Hello friends hope someone can help me out here, it’s confusing me a lot and I don’t know how to fix it, so here it goes: :-\

I can’t open my Task Manager when I press CTRL + ALT + DEL it does load only when I’m offline and when a program fails if I’m not connected to the Internet it does launch…

But if I’m online surfing the web or stuff I find my computer very laggy and the sandclock remains there along with the normal arrow, my programs go unstable very frequently and when I want to open the T.M so I can disable them while they’re not responding, the green icon sits on the System Tray and would never load the Manager…if I try to open it 5 times I find myself with 5 different Manager icons…

I have Avast latest version and Spybot Search & Destroy as defenders, reccently Avast has detected me certain viruses but all I did was to send them to Chest and since no program worked wrong I deleted them permanently and Spybot wont find anything else.

Could it be matter of a virus hiding there not letting my Task Manager load Online? I suspect when I go online some kind of worm activates and it wont let me “discover” it by blocking the manager or from reccent virus attacks some component may have been deleted who knows…I hope anyone can help me with this knowing by experience, about a program that could load my manager or better fix this stuff right away, cause it’s pissing me off.

Greetings and thanks in advance for your help :smiley:
Jason.

Download - update and run Ewido, on completion run a boot time scan with Avast. Also when you open up taskmanager what process is using the most cycles. I would suggest you open task manager then connect to the net to see which programme is the culprit

Ewido here http://www.ewido.net/en/

Hi Jason_Becker,

Use this: StartupList : A simple tool that lists all and every auto starting program on your system. You might be surprised what it finds, this is way better than Msconfig. Commonly used to troubleshoot malfunctioning systems, trojan/viral infections, new spyware/malware breed and the likes.
Currently at version: 2.01 Download from here:
http://castlecops.com/zx/Merijn/startuplist.zip

polonus