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Since my mother doesn't use these programs at all I have removed FrostWire 5, MusicOasis, uTorrent.I also removed Norton Security Scan....because its Norton as well as a number of garbage applications. However both PC Optimizer Pro and Spyware Terminator are not in the add/remove programs list. OTL Fix. All processes killed ========== OTL ========== Service NwlnkFwd stopped successfully! Service NwlnkFwd deleted successfully! File system32\DRIVERS\nwlnkfwd.sys not found. Service NwlnkFlt stopped successfully! Service NwlnkFlt deleted successfully! File system32\DRIVERS\nwlnkflt.sys not f

AdwCleaner # AdwCleaner v2.303 - Logfile created 07/01/2013 at 23:04:14# Updated 08/06/2013 by Xplode# Operating system : Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 2 (32 bits)# User : Christopher - ALLISONPC# Boot Mode : Normal# Running from : C:\Users\Christopher\Downloads\adwcleaner.exe# Option [Delete] ***** [services] ***** Stopped & Deleted : DefaultTabUpdate ***** [Files / Folders] ***** Deleted on reboot : C:\Program Files\Ask.comDeleted on reboot : C:\Program Files\PC Optimizer ProFile Deleted : C:\ENDFile Deleted : C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins\crawlersrch.xmlFi

I'm going to be honest here, I put this in Malware Removal but I honestly have no idea how bad this machine has it but there is definitely something wrong. Avast was completely disabled before I started taking a look at the laptop. Very slow loading for everything (for a 2GHz dual core with 2GB of RAM). Download speeds for files (tested with Wi-Fi only) are abismal and do not get any faster than 50KB/s max. The homepage is set to a search engine at search.conduit.com. Inability to access task manager and other utilities. Running Avast before this yielded 8 infected files in the initial scan an