There are a number of malware and virii programs that will cause the 'IE6 will not open anything in a new window, even if right-clicked.' problem you describe.

Among them a program called...

Is your modem connected to a network card in your computer? Or a USB port?

If it's connected to a network card, I'd consider removing the drivers for the network card by removing it in Device...

Could you explain/describe this 'crash' you're having? Is the machine actually locking up? Do you get an error message? Or do you just become unable to use the internet? Will the machine run fine in...

There is a fix that was listed in the DiVX website that involved disabling DEP, which cleared up lockups and crashes and other strange behavior when right clicking after installing SP2. It sounds...

I would think something would pop up in a Hijackthis log, I can't swear to it, but if you post up a hijackthis log, I'm sure we'd all take a good hard look at it for you to see if we spot anything...

You most likely have DiVX installed. The old version of DiVX doesn't like SP2. There is an updated version of DiVX available here:

http://www.divx.com/

Don't remove this:
C:\WINNT\System32\SK9910DM.EXE

It's IBM's keyboard driver, to set up the extra keys on their Media pro keyboards, (which come with many branded machines as well, i.e. Gateway)....

I'm not quite sure what to say to this, and I don't want to put my foot in my mouth, so I won't make any general observations on the situation here.

I will say that you could probably figure out...

I'm adding that one to my favorites, Thanks, KT.

There's enough virii, worms, and spyware in that to sink a...umm...anyway...

Yup, tons. You need one of the hero's....err...experts. Google some of those filenames, you'll be surprised at the...

And be sure you run the one from the new folder, don't use a shortcut on your desktop or what have you, run the file from in that folder.

That's great news. Keep safe.

Heheh, since it's there. ;)

Glad to help. I'm learning a lot watching you guys. :)

I've seen this before:

O2 - BHO: F1 Organizer Class - {00000EF1-0786-4633-87C6-1AA7A44296DA} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\ATPART~1.DLL

It's part of some nasty, or at least, some on other forums have...

I thought that log looked....rather large....lol

Woot! Crunchie to the rescue! :)

This needs to be posted in the Security forum. Please cut and paste the logs text into the message, don't attach the file as you did.

Crunchie or one of the other Security experts can help you out...

Oh well, I gave it my best shot, and I'm out of ideas, besides sending it to Dell.

Just realized that PCCPFW.EXE is probably a firewall from PC-Cillin, so all told, you should be all set. :o

Looking good to me. As for how the bugs got in, you do know there are a lot of bugs that spread now through your network connection? In other words, you never get asked to install anything, it just...

Mine goes back 4 months. System Restore can only hold so much data, and is limited by the percentage of your hard drive it is set to use. Mine has 12% of 80 gigs (x2) to work with, it sounds to me...

If it started recently, you could always try loading a system restore point from a time prior to when the darned thing appeared.

I couldn't tell you. There may well be more than one virus that replaces those two files, I can only work with the info you've given me, and that info was that you had those two bugs. It may be that...

Nasty.

I can only repeat my advice, and hope someone else posts agreement, cause you've simply ignored it so far. Repartition. If you can't get rid of the nasty any other way, that way will do it,...

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Umm...

Okay, here, check this out again:

"smss.exe: Added as a result of the FLOOD.F VIRUS! Note - this is not the legitimate Smss.exe system file should normally NOT figure in...

Actually, I beg to differ with you there. Many features get added as time goes by, and it's been 4 or more years since ME was released. It is indeed more than possible that Ad-Aware is dependent on a...

Also be sure you've gotten all the Windows Updates for your machine, as it's possible one of the updates for Windows has changed something which Ad-Aware is dependant upon.

Are you saying they are running processes when you run in safe mode? They shouldn't be, at least to my knowledge, but then, if they are virii, I guess unexpected behavior shouldn't...

lol!

More than sounds like him, if he didn't say that, he probably thought it.

Did you peruse that article of Catweazle's I linked a few messages up? It has very specific and precise...

It's not the 'mother', but it's probably her first cousin. :p

Sorry, but I stand by my recommendation to WIPE the drive completely by deleting the partition, then repartitioning it. The type of re-installation you're doing won't remove files that are there,...

Boot in safe mode to delete them. (Hit f8 repeatedly while the machine's booting up). That should work.

What a nasty little bug you've gotten there.

btw, wauclt.exe should be Windows AutoUpdate service, (unless that virus replaced it, which doesn't sound entirely unlikely since you indicate the...

Okay, hold up a second, have you tried to remove the existing partition on the hard drive, and reformat it yet? It's sounding to me like you've been trying to re-install onto the same infected hard...

I've been following this for a while, and it occurs to me you could very well have a yet 'unfound' bug. Meaning that perhaps it is a bug the AV companies haven't found yet. Especially if none of them...

I see a few entries I don't like the look of:

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [pqrlezrls] C:\WINDOWS\System32\izzlruih.exe
Note both it's name, and filename appear to be randomly generated alphabetical...

Ahh...could something have changed his DNS settings? Just a thought.

You don't want to remove rundll32, it is required by Windows, as it loads DLL files up to run as applications. That said, rundll32 can be used to load and register virii, (example: Lovegate virus),...