PC extremely slow after autoupdate of KB890830 and KB913580

[santhosh]

Hi all,

On May 10th, the win autoupdate updated the pc with the following :

1. Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - May 2006 (KB890830)
2. Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB913580)

The system was asking for a restart and hence, proceeded to shut down and didn't turn it back on until a few hours later.

Now, the pc is extremely slow and literally crawling. You click on anything and by the time it takes to select that, you can have a couple of sips of java...

Well, for now, autoupdates are disabled (I still wonder how it was "auto enabled" to being with... as it was always, set to "notify").

Anyway, does anyone know about this?

Any suggestions? I cannot find the kb's to uninstall them in the add/remove programs.

Thanks in advance,

S

[smurfy]

Well I've rolled out 913580 to all W2k boxes and not seen this but haven't put the M$ malicious software removal on any so I'm picking that's probably the problem.

Does the system still run slow after a 2nd reboot?

I'd suggest you run an independent malware scan (HijackThis) and post the log here. If it looks nasty we'll move the topic to our cybersafety forum for specialist assistance or proceed with other diagnostics here.

[santhosh]

Thanks for the response SMurfy.

Got the issue resolved by uninstalling Norton Antivirus/firewall and resinstalling the same.

Also, before reinstalling the antivirus s/w, had the autoupdate from windows site update all.

Thanks for response.