Can a virus affect my net speed

[PaulStat]

As title really, the loading of web pages etc has been terrible for the past week or so, just tried doing the same on my laptop and it's not really an issue. Could I have a virus. My subscription to Norton is 6 months out of date

 

[PaulStat]

What would you recommend instead of Norton?

 

[PaulStat]

May be a bit of a shot in the dark... but are you with NTL by any chance?

Nope eclipse