Does that have a phishing checker as well? If so, he may have IS, brower and that all doing the same task simultaneousssllllowlyyyyyyyy. On a Pentium 4 that would not be good.

Edited by RobertoS (Sun 08-Jan-12 13:13:59)

I only have the free version which doesn't have an option to be resident

The paid for version may have such an option

Easiest way to check would be to uninstall

BTW Pentium 4 here on my PC too and it can be quite laggy sometimes despite having everything as optimised as possible

Try IE without add-ons is a good test as things like Google and Yahoo toolbars and search providers can slow things down considerably and as you have sggested turning phishing filters off
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930168

Edited by nredwood (Sun 08-Jan-12 13:26:42)

It's Anti-malware

phishing smartscreen filter was already turned off.

I have chrome and ie8. both are slower for websites

Edited by deleted (Sun 08-Jan-12 13:39:50)

Is this the desktop or latop or both that give the slow speed?

It's both.

Are their any fiewall settings in the router that I might be able to change?

Edited by deleted (Sun 08-Jan-12 14:10:38)

Is it the free or paid for version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware?

Have you tried different DNS servers i.e OpenDNS?
https://store.opendns.com/setup/

yes its the free version i use

No relevant firewall settings in the router.

Have you checked the phishing settings in MS Security Essentials?

I don't undestand dns servers. How do i try a new one? Is it a complicated process?

Could I revert back to my current dns if I wanted?

I opened up mse but couldn't find anything relating to phishing settings. Do you know where I can locate these? I did a search on google aswell but couldn't find an answer