uninstall successful. thank you crunchie over to judy.
its good to have you back, hope u had a good time off.
few more questions:
do i need a firewall?
can i run superantispyware and do i need to run it along norton antivirus?
do u think everything is over now?

i still get that recovery console message,i thought it will be gone when combofix is uninstalled. do i need to keep it?

Hi jazzyjaz, glad crunchie helped with completion. The recovery console is there because it was installed when combofix was used. This is how Microsoft describes the Recovery Console:
That was installed prior to the running of combofix because it was not on your system. You said yourself you don't have the original XP disk which would be use to help you recover the system should there be a problem. Leave it. Hopefully you will never need it. The message is just telling you it is there.
Yes, you need a firewall. Either use the built in XP firewall or use one of the free ones available. Norton is your anti-virus program, not a firewall. Personally, I would recommend you try Online Armor It is free, fairly easy to use, not intrusive and since Norton is fairly large I would suggest you use Online Armor.
You certainly can run SuperANTISPYWARE. The free version DOES NOT work in the back ground, use it for scanning purposes weekly. I would strongly suggest you do the same with MBA-M. Frankly that is MY preference, MBA-M that is, that program is really top of the line today. You can have as many of the Antispyware type programs installed to scan with as long as they dont have real time protection(start with Windows with real time protection enabled) as you like.
I also STRONGLY recommend to use SpywareBlaster. A super FREE program. It Silently blocks malware,etc.Update it, enable protection for latest updates, close it out.
Your logs look clean but you are the only one who can really answer that, is the computer working well and how you would like it to work? If so, then I would say things are good.
Judy

I think everything is running fine.
I have not encountered any issues.
I will "mark as solved" by tommorow. Hope that is ok with you.
one more thing is there a list of services that should be on, or the ones not required to run.
Or do you think my process list is filtered enough.

http://www.blackviper.com/

One thing I just noticed, your Java program is WAY out of date. You need to update that. First go HERE download the OFFLINE install file and Save it to the Desktop. Once you have that downloaded go to Add/Remove and Uninstall ALL old versions of Java you find there. Once those are uninstalled then go to that new file on the desktop and double click to install the newest version. Once that is complete then go back to the Install Link and on the Right side you will see Verify Now. Click there to verify that the Install was successful.
Judy

i couldnt find the offline version so i downloaded the online version.
now the verify is correct.
however i still have not uninstalled the older version i have now appearing three:
J2SE Version5. update 14
Java 6 update 2
Java 6 update 14

Oh COME ON...this really is getting to be ridiculous. My instructions were VERY clear. What is so hard about following instructions? This thread has gone on for 16 days, 11 pages, and many of those days and pages would have been totally unnecessary IF YOU HAD FOLLOWED the intructions as given.

There was NOTHING difficult about locating the Offline Install IF you had looked at the download page carefully.
What is the address of the page where you downloaded this update? Current release I believe is Update 6 version 13 from THIS PAGE please click
I believe what you have downloaded is an early release version of the next update. That is NOT what I told you to install.

i had downloaded the correct version.
now things are according to what you said for some reason i overlooked offline.
now i downloaded the offline version.
uninstalled all the previous versions.
installed the latest one downloaded.
verified successfully.
bingoooo.
now are there any more recommendations judy.

Only other recommendation is that you download, install, update and enable SpywareBlaster
SPYWAREBLASTER Silently blocks malware,etc. Update it, enable protection for latest updates, close it out. It DOES NOT run in the background but provides superb protection on the computer. It is a MUST HAVE program. Just remember to manually check for updates weekly and if there are any, download and enable the new protection added. Then close the program.
Other than that I think you are good to go. If you feel things are good then you can mark this one solved. Safe surfing and REMEMBER READ everything before you do it.
Judy