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Computer is infected by a virus or a malware, what do I do now?

My windows7 machine probably got infected by some kind of virus and/or malware. The system boot up is tediously time consuming and even after a the successful boot, everything is way too slow. A double click to an directory takes about 3 min to process, and during all this time the harddisk LED on my CPU keeps glowing rather than the usual keep-blinking process.

My usual solution is to run an antivirus scan, but unfortunately I haven't installed an antivirus on this machine. Another option I would go for is the System Restore, but this time around I haven't been able to do that. My final hope was to recover using a bootable DVD but I haven't been able to revert all the harmful changes to my system.

But somehow I happened to get hijackThis running and here's the log from system scan.

Its already too late to install an antivirus or registry cleaner software(s), I guess. So what can I do to save my PC?

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It sounds like something is making excessive use of the hard-drive and perhaps also the CPU, thus bogging the system down.

Use Process Monitor to see what process(es) are accessing the file-system (select only the File filter) and Process Explorer to find out what process(es) are using the CPU (make sure to enable the CPU graph to make it easier to spot the culprit: right-click the column header->Select Columns->Processes->History).

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If you think hijackthis will help, you can paste your log into the form at hijackthis.de and it will analyze it for you, flagging anything that may be of concern or indicative of something dangerous (like a trojan). However, be aware that hijackthis directly modifies the registry and using it (and this site, which is only community-supported and not comprehensive) can damage your computer beyond what state it's in right now. Proceed with caution.

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