:cheesy: Thanks so much for the feedback, crunchie!. Per your suggestion, I have learned to run hijackthis to fix, not just scan, plus running spybot, ad-aware and using Black Ice to block...

latest log.

I had difficulty following some of your last instructions.
When I went to the C: drive in safe mode, I did not find the Internet optimizer folder or the WINNT\AddCls.exe.

I...

Yikes! I see you are a lot faster than I am. I will follow the instructions in your last post at 10:25 AM Thursday.!

Thanks forthe suggestion, Crunchie. I started the shredder and clicked on the 'check for update' and it says I have the latest version. I will try running it again making very sure to select 'Fix'...

Just learning what some of these other buttons/options do!

Caperjack?

Should I assume I'm clear now? Or did you just lose track of me? I do seem to have control of IE now, uses my intended "home page", no isearch, no extraneous icons/buttons etc.
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Thanks for your help. Here is my latest log following your advice. I have also now installed ad-adware and spybot per your suggestion.

Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 12:58:44 AM,...

Thank you so much for your quick response and help. Here is the current hijackthis log.
It appears that the cwshredder was specific to that one trojan. I'm guessing this log says I have...

I hope I'm doing this correctly, this is my first time here. I found you guys by 'googling' for wsem217.dll. I found where you had others submit a log from hijackthis, so here is mine. Can...