Working on an OLD computer for a friend. A single core Dell, with a 2.66ghz, with 1gig ram, and a MX 420 nvidia card.
I have removed a butt load of viruses and malware. all scans now currently come up clean. Malwarebytes, Microsoft Security Essentials, and SpyBot S&D. The computer has very little installed on it, they don't use it very much, the viruses and malware came from Coupon Alerts. There were 137 pieces of it.
But anyway, on to the real issue. The pc runs fairly well in Windows (XP by the way, SP3) But the slow down comes on internet browsing. It has Chrome installed and of course IE, but both are very sluggish, basically stock browsers with hardly no additional plugins.
This is the pc issue, as I have here at my house, on my internet which is about 14 Mb down, but even just returning search querries on that pc regardless which browser, it takes several seconds, and when you click on a link, it takes forever to move on to it, it's worse than dial up, but I am absolutely sure it's in the PC, and none of my equipment, as everything else works perfect.
Anyone, gimmie some ideas, or questions to help come up with some. The only thing I have not tried yet is a new NIC card. Which I may try this afternoon. But some more ideas would be great.