Is not a virus , or spy ware , try to understand the below , i could use some help !!!?

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Is not a virus , or spy ware , try to understand the below , i could use some help !!! I very good with computers , and this has me stumped ....
I have a dell dimension 8200 desktop . Files on hard drive open slow when connected to the internet , anyone know why ? files like photos, music, movies that are on the hard drive , and have nothing to do with the internet load slow . Understand when I am not connected to the Internet ( dsl cable ) the Pics , music , and videos open normal speed. Pics, music , and videos load fine when off the connection to DSL ( dsl unhooked ) when i hook up the dsl Pics, music , and videos load slow !!!
Note. temp files deleted , I freed up temp files in memeroy ... Is not a virus , or spy ware , Thanks if anyone gas a clue ..

Answer 1

do u run a wireless connection thru your dsl? if so, is it secure? could be others are tapping into your connection causing it to slow down?

Answer 2

An internet connection can become slow or stop working due to a number of reasons depending on the type of the connection. Many of the problems can be solved by making software changes or small hardware corrections. Detailed instructions at http://tinyurl.com/yl62gz

Answer 3

run a program like security task manager to see what processes are actually running when connected to the internet, your antivirus and anti spy program may not be detecting something that is taking up resources as it may be identified as a service or necessary process rather than a malicious program....also could be that you have your antivirus set to monitor local files and folders for any changes and its scanning the files when you open them and thats causing the slow down....or could just be that you have alot of background programs runnig and then opening the files just adds another process to the list and the resources are being used up.

Answer 4

To chime in with the others I have to say that you have some sort of background services (Spyware, Trojan) that is robbing your bandwidth and CPU time that makes things run slow.

If you have a firewall setup, or not, try running Zonealarm Pro which can be run for free. Run that and check on whatever is zapping your processes and then shut them down.

Hope this helps.

Answer 5

pay attention when you are connected to the net what are the running processes , seems to me it is a spy ware of some kind , as soon as you connect these programs takes a lot of your machine resources , memory and processor which make loading files painly slow.
so just watch running processes and compare when you are not connected and investigate what are these additional proc' are .

Answer 6

Try going here:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.broadbandnet.hardware/browse_thread/thread/bf9a6b630228dd4e/6116602b234802bd%236116602b234802bd

Maybe you have security software or firewall that only runs when you're connected that slows your computer down. Try disabling some of it and see what happens.

And it's always possible that you have spyware or some kind of malware that may not be getting detected, so always consider that. Anti-virus definitions can't detect everything.

Answer 7

You have a security feature turned on that is scanning these files when you try to open them with an internet connection in an active state.

You just need to identify it & configure it to not scan 'local' files...

Good luck.

Answer 8

when your connected to the internet your memory is bieng used in the background so yea its gonna open slower mine does the same thing i i got a 2.9 gig proc and 1.48 gig of ram same thing happens to me ..