Check for root kit viruses as well. Nasty little buggers, and most
virus checkers can't find them. I used UN-Hack Me to find one I had.
http://www.UnHackMe.com
It wasn't able to remove the one it found, but I was able to kill the
file in safe mode.


" wrote:

I have 1.3 ghz amd, 736 mb ram, XP home-sp2, 80 gb hd.

For the last few days my web pages have been very slow to download,
taking
from 30 sec. to several minutes. I tried firefox and it's the same
thing.
eventually the program closes and I get the message:

"Microsoft Visual C++
Runtime Library. Buffer overrun detected!
Program: C:\program files\Internet explorer\iexplore.exe
A buffer overrun has been detected which has corrupted the program's
internal state. The program cannot safely continue execution and must
now be
terminated."

I googled for advice and got all sorts of strange results, causing me
to
uninstall and reinstall java, internet explorer and XP itself. I've run
macafee,
AVG, bit defender, Spy Sweeper, Ad-aware,Stinger and housecall. Some
of them I ran several times. They found a virus or two but now the
problem
still exists. I don't get the buffer overrun message anymore but
Microsoft explorer and Internet explorer are very slow operating. I
uninstalled Firefox but now I get an error message when trying to
reinstall.

I entered this on TSGL and they didn't give me any useful advice.
can anyone please tell me where to go from here?

Reformatting is not an option at this time, I have too many app's which

would be hard to replace.
engineman

jk