Archive for January, 2008

Hey man, look at this.

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

I’m puzzled, perplexed, and bewildered.  This isn’t anything out of the ordinary, except I’m pretty good at finding why a computer is running an unwanted program most of the time.  When I boot in to WinXP there is a very miniscule window frame at the top left of my screen.  Most of it is off the screen, just the bottom corner of the window shows.  I can drag it out to my desktop and see that it is a very, very small program window.  I started going through the process list in task manager when I noticed an iexplore.exe running when I didn’t have an IE window open. I killed the process and the window went away, but it comes back at the next log in.  I have reinstalled IE to try and fix, but it won’t go away.  Do any of you have any suggestions or knowledge of Malware that would do this.  I tried to Google it, but you could only guess how many near misses came up in the search listing.