hi

i have a dell inspiron 5100 P4, 2.4GHZ, 512 MB Ram, 40GB drive (4gb free space) with Windows 2000 server. I have a wireless net connection with a cable modem.

When I try to run spybot s&d, or some other scan program, the system abruptly shuts down. This happend even when I am downloading a large file from the net.

When I am rebooting the system it takes an awful lot of time to boot, say 20 minutes or more. or sometime while booting it just shuts down. By shuts down I mean, the system powers off.

Lately, while booting I see that some program with a window minimize and close button appears on the screen and keeps on flickering as if the program is executing. and I see that it has a title 'HO.exe'. I just see that window title bar. This program seems to run endlessly and the system shuts down completely after about 10 minutes during a reboot.

After I try several times (by disconnecting the power cord and battery) I will be lucky if the system actually boots up.

I have tried Hijackthis, regcleaner, to find out what it is, but no luck.
Cannot run a full scan for spywares, because the system shuts down.

Pl. help. Thanks in Advance

Hi, welcome to pchf, a great website were you will find excellent support, I was wondering if you have another logon for the computer that you could use besides your normal one which will allow you to logon and stay logged on?? e.g an administrator or another user??

Hya Dapra69.

Can you do a search for HO.exe and upload it to this site if you find it:

http://virusscan.jotti.org/

And report back the result , and can you also post an Hijackthis log?


Also i would recommend to create some more free space , 10% free space is not very much and could cause problems.