(sorry about that Alex, but it is a bad idea to remove stuff unless you know what it's doing. There are a few system entries that shouldn't be removed which you had marked)

Not that I know of - you shouldn't need such a program anyway (when a process exits Windows goes and frees up usually all of the memory it was using).


Anyway, looking at your HijackThis log, it appears that you have been hit by a variant of CoolWebSearch. Download and run CWShredder, which should kill it.

It also looks like Norton Internet Security or Norton AntiVirus is installed and running. It looks like it might be versoin 2002, but you may have an upgrade to that installed. Anyway, run Norton (there should be an icon for it in the start menu, under "Norton" or "Symantec"), and run LiveUpdate to ge the latest virus definitions. Then do a full system scan.

Also, download and run both Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad-Aware, and update both of them (the internal updateers should do the trick). Then do full system scans (might be called "in-depth" in Ad-Aware) with both of them. Do NOT be tempted by other spyware removers that you may see - most of those actually contain spyware and do more harm than good.

If you have any problems with updating those programs, or doing the system scans, then post here and let us know (some spyware tries to actively intefere with antivirus and antispyware).


Once that's done, if any of those programs find anything then please post details of it (like what nasty was found). Also post a new HijackThis log.


(BTW, the lines in HijackThis that caught my eye are the ones below. Don't remove them with HijackThis yet - it's better for them to be removed by spybot/adaware if detected by them, as some nasties hook deep into the system and can cause problems if not removed properly)