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Sounds like a virus or malware (your Firewall will NOT stop you acquiring either, 
but I see you have Kapersky and some malware scanners), or possibly a failing HDD.

Having some files that cannot be defragged is perfectly normal.

CHKDSK validating the USN journal is itself OK (its XP's log of changes to any files, 
so other apps can tell if files have changed or not), but the fact it keeps checking 
means that something is corrupting the journal. Could be malware, failing HDD or 
XP's indexing service (which you should turn off).

Before going any further, is your valuable data backed up ? You might be about to 
lose it :-(

Next step, in view of "my firewall told me it was attempting to connect to a remote 
ip address" would be to post on a specialist malware forum immediately (a quick search 
of this forum will give you some links).

Your system sounds pretty thoroughly screwed up - do you have XP disks so you could 
do a repair install or a complete re-install ?

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