i hate to keep coming back with a negative on this one... but the viruses arent on my computer, no spyware, and while its great to know that im clean, i still dont have any progress on the lag. the game itself is taking up 99% of the cpu, i think thats basically the problem. seeing as how its an older game, and a brand new computer (granted, not top of the line), i dont see how my computer couldnt handle it. more complicated games run just fine on it. how about HD free space? i have about 42% free... just throwing things out there for ya, i have no idea.

lol...

got me stumped then - that was the most likely causes...

err, defrag ur hard disk?

check ur hidden programs running, the programs that run on startup. if u have a ton of bs in ur startup menu then u will lag, or if ur seeding torrents or using file sharing programs that what i would sugest is take everything outta ur startup menu, when i turn on my comp all that startsup is my mcafee and my volume control

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lol bay area, as if there were only 1 (East bay - San Francisco, South Bay - Los Angeles, and I've heard people in Santa Cruz call themselves the South Bay)

hmm... people generally identify the term 'bay area' with SF bay, there are obviously more bays though.

All the SVCHost's can be ended,

There are a couple of windows services that run under SVCHost that if you stop that particular SVCHost it will put the system on a 60 sec countdown and force the PC to restart, this is not the work of a virus, it is how those services are set, but if MSBlaster is on the system that causes these particular services to crash again causing the 60 sec countdown and restart,

I used to work at one of the UK's top ISP's at the time that MSBlaster was at it's worst, we had to talk the users through how to stop the MSBlaster virus crashing the service and restarting the PC, so that could download the fixes for it.