I'm trying to fix a friend's computer. It's gotten alot of stuff on it according to pestcontrol but they won't take it off because I did the scan from pcpitstop. Here's the hijack this log
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 10:54:55 PM, on 1/2/2006
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)
Out of the blue, my computer started getting slow. Sometimes its ok, and then it will be on the verge of freezing.. then get itself back together. I realized, when I start up, it takes FOREVER. It also shows this screen I have never seen before. Its completely black, and has a line of grey rectangles from side to side. and slowly loads across. When it is finally finished 10-15 minutes it will slowly start up in regular fashion
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