I've installed all of the updates for IE and I'm running 6.0.26.
Judging from the header information in your log, neither your IE nor your version of Windows itself are current.
I wouldn't suggest upgrading to XP SP2 right now, but you should at least install SP1 and all related critical fixes. Also, the current IE is 6.00.2800.1106.
Although there's nothing else obviously "nasty" in your HJT log, the following entry worries me a bit. Can you tell us more about this:O23 - Service: Remote Packet Capture Protocol v.0 (experimental) (rpcapd) - Unknown owner - %ProgramFiles%\WinPcap\rpcapd.exe" -d -f "%ProgramFiles%\WinPcap\rpcapd.ini (file missing)
WinPcap is a network packet-capturing utility; in other words, a network "sniffer". If you haven't knowing installed WinPcap or some network analysis utility (such as Ethereal) which uses WinPcap, I'd get rid of it ASAP. If you can remove it through your Add/Remove Programs control panel, do so. If you can't remove it that way, or if you knowing installed it, let us know.
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1. C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
The log entry above indicates that you had at least 1 instance of Internet Explorer running when you ran HijackThis.
Before fixing problems with HijackThis, you must make sure to close/quit ALL instances of your web browser! HijackThis cannot fully perform its fixes while browsers are running.
2. Once you are sure all browsers are closed:
- Run HijackThis again and have it fix the O23 - Service: Remote Packet Capture Protocol v.0 (experimental) (rpcapd) - Unknown owner - %ProgramFiles%\WinPcap\rpcapd.exe" -d -f "%ProgramFiles%\WinPcap\rpcapd.ini (file missing) entry.
- After HJT finishes that fix, open Windows explorer and delete the entire C:\ProgramFiles\WinPcap folder.
- Empty your Recycle Bin.
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I have to log off for the night now, but please:
Don't touch that system until one of us can get back to this !!!!
You might loose everything if you muck with it at all.
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What happened to all my help!
Hang in, foolsfortune. We're all volunteers here, and we all have "real life" jobs, families, and other issues which can keep us from devoting every hour of our free time to this site.
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