[pchelpers] Re: indomitable malware - Antivir best antimalware program

Hi Scott

> EGlnl> I'm completely confused and have no idea what to do.
> 
> Tried installing the default Windows drivers for those devices?

I had to bring the laptop back before i had time to do that. If i'd 
known what drivers were for what devices, i'd have been able to it 
quickly, but they had cryptic names and i didn't know how to find out. I 
felt really helpless in clicking around in device manager.

In any case, it was completely illogical that other drivers than before 
were causing problems. I have the feeling that Bootvis is unreliable and 
in any case there were other problems causing the 30 second period of no 
activity at the beginning of startup. And what was the "network delay" 
that was listed like a driver in the driver delay chart in some Bootvis 
logs?

> If all else fail, install Windows on top of itself?

Yes, that seems to be the only solution. It seems that all the guides 
found on the Internet for speeding up startup only deal with minor 
problems and are incapable of helping to find major "hidden" problems.

I'm very surprised that there is apparently no other program like 
Bootvis, especially since this is no longer supported by Microsoft and 
obviously deficient, at least for modern hard drives. I found many 
discussions on various forums where all kinds of amateurs and "experts" 
discuss performance improvements and startup speeds etc., but none 
mention any alternatives to Bootvis, and they do nothing more than 
complain about or at best explain why Bootvis doesn't show boot activity 
and one or more other graphs on modern hard drives.

Maybe diagnostic cards can help in analysing slow boots but they are 
apparently not easy to use with laptops because they apparently would 
require opening up the case, which is different for every laptop and 
always very difficult for even experienced users.

I suspect that on the formerly infected laptop there is still a network 
TCP/IP problem that was not fixed by WinSockFix and the various fixes 
and even the reinstallation of TCP/IP that i carried out. I know very 
little about operating systems and TCP/IP, but it seems that it is 
incorrectly implemented in Windows because the only solution to network 
problems is often a reinstallation of Windows. I'm pretty sure this is 
not the case with Linux. To top off the irony, it seems that the network 
problem may have been only partly caused by spyware and other malware; 
Windows Defender seems to often mess up Windows by messing up its 
network connections in removing malware.

What i meant above with minor problems are mostly "user-caused" ones 
like letting programs start automatically, not defragging, not updating 
Windows, installing and opening dubious programs and attachments etc.



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