Issue with IE & Slow Computer

[Uchiha Sasuke]

alright let me get to the point

i have recently used the recovery option in my HP PC to reinstall Media center SP2 but after i reformatted and did this. i started to get slow response from my computer and every 5 min IE would open to a chinese website and it would cause my computer to respond sluggishly.

anyone can help me please thanks

P.S i am writing from my Vista Ultimate PC at the moment bc of technical issue with the other PC

[vol7ron]

sounds like a virus. get hijackthis and post the output

[estate]

I have a posssible solution:
Download and run Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
-------------------->Latest database update

After the scan is over and the threats are cleared, download ComboFix Malware Removal to complete the threats removal process
download ComboFix from one of the following URLs:
http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/sUBs/ComboFix.exe
http://www.forospyware.com/sUBs/ComboFix.exe
http://subs.geekstogo.com/ComboFix.exe

I hope that these steps would help you.
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[Smith6612]

When you reinstalled your PC, did you reinstall it from a disk or did you reinstall it from a separate partition of the hard drive, or from the main drive partition itself? If you installed or restored from the hard drive, I bet you that your recovery files have gotten infected. But if anything, after every reformat and install, you ALWAYS install every Windows update (you need Service Pack 3 btw) and load up the Anti-Virus and Anti-Spy software immediately before using the computer.