My latest HJT log:

Using AVG7 now.

I used to have Norton but removed the process from starting up and tried installing Antivis Personal Edition, but the latter hangs midway through installation.

Unfortunately the fix didn't quite...

Sorry about that: Posted over here (http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/showthread.php?p=84537#post84537).

Thanks Caperjack:

My IE doesn't load up properly, though Mozilla works fine except on sites with Quicktime, WMV, Java etc. After about a minute, Windows Explorer has problems loading as well and I can't even start up...

I'm having problems with my Dell notebook running Win XP Home (Original; came with the laptop). Not sure if it's a security problem; have run spybot S&D and turns up DSO exploit which keeps on coming...