DMR, Thankyou for your help. I did what you recommended and it seems to have solved the problem. I had so many updates trying to run it slowed the computer to a crawl.

About every 5 minutes or so a black dos screen pops up and disappears before i can make out what directory it is from. The screen is blank and is from the documents and settings directory but it...

Thanks Crunchie, I think that answers my question. My scans with SpyBOT and Ad-ware are coming up with good results so I will stick with them. Do you hppen to know of any good free email blockers...

The latest unregistered version which is 4.10. I am wondering if the progrm comes up with this trojan to get us to pruchase the program for $40 in order to get rid of the trojan. I have already been...

Iran the regsearch and it reports no intance of search-soft.net found. This is getting stranger and stranger.

According to XoftSpy Troy/agent-BN is located in Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\InternetSetttings\
Zonemaps\Domain\Search-soft.net but I cannot find a registry entry or a file that...

Thanks Crunchie for helping. Below are the results of the new scan. What does "teatimer" do? BTW scanning with XoftSpy still brings up:Troj/Agent-BN is a downloader Trojan for the Windows platform....

my e-mail has been getting spam from porno sites and my browser has been grabbed also. I ran free version oc f Xoftspy and it came up with a trojan named troy/agent-bn. I can't seem to find a way to...

I don't recognize either entry so i will erase both of them and see what that does. Thanks

My IBM thinkpad is really slow even though I have run the latest versions of SpyBot and AdWare. Could someone please look at my Hijack file and see if there is something that should be fixed. Thank...

Thanks Caperjack, good advice which I am mostly following already but I will review it closely to make sure.

Unfortunately I had purchased PCorion before I found out about spywarewarrior and their ratings of the program. The good news is that although the techs at Pcoriion said they cannot fix the problem,...

I installed pcOrion and when I ran a scan it found several problems and fixed them,however. Now when I run a scan it finds the same 23 coookies everytime and even though i tell the program to fix...

Yeah, I just solved the problem. Proxy server was checked. Thanks Nation and DMR for your help.

Thanks, I tried what you said to do but iIE5 still will not work. I must have missed something. At any rate here is the new scan:
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.0
Scan saved at 2:22:36 PM, on...

I can browse the web with FireFox and Netscape but not with IE5. Thsi would not be a problem except that many Microsoft programs need IE5 to run and also I cannot link from e-mail because the e-mail...