AboutCarolyn Meinel Expertise I cover Windows, Unix, TCP/IP and Ethernet security questions. I do not cover Mac, Palm Pilot, or other networking issues.
Experience Books by Carolyn Meinel: wrote a chapter for The Hacking of America book (see http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1567204600/happyhacker)
My article Code Red for the Web for Scientific American was reprinted in the book Best American Science Writing 2002 (see http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060936509/happyhacker). My book The Happy Hacker: A Guide to Mostly Harmless Hacking is now in 4th edition with a Japanese edition (see http://happyhacker.org/hhbook/).
Question Greetings : I had identified a Trojan.KillAV and Vundo on my PC (winXP) I removed much of it with several antivirus/spyware and regedit programs , one symptom was the task mgr disable which I corrected with a command from RUN.
Now I have iexplore.exe starting at boot with popup porn ads and video/audio files being launched , I have to unplug the DSL when I work off line or it robs my memory and frezes MSword .
Answer It sounds like the antivirus and antispyware programs you have used aren't much good. I can help you better if you tell me which ones you used. This will also help other questioners at Allexperts so they know which programs failed you. You can email me directly at carolyn.meinel@techbroker.com.
In the meantime, there is one high quality, total coverage protection program that you can try: F-Secure Internet Security 2008 at https://store.f-secure.com/cgi-bin/dlreg/ml=EN?ID=FSISTB&desid=TRIAL . If this doesn't work, please let me know and I'll give you more complicated instructions that will certainly work -- but they are painful!
To prevent future infections, don't use Internet Explorer, as it is susceptible to introducing viruses, adware and spyware into your computer. Sometimes it even can defeat the best security programs. Instead you could use Firefox, free from Mozilla.org . Instead of using Outlook for email, you could use Thunderbird, free from Mozilla.org, or Eudora, free from Eudora.com
Also, in the future I recommend only using an Internet Security program that you pay for. Almost always, when someone complains that their computer is infested with nasty stuff, it turns out they were using free programs only.
