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recently i have started to get a problem when i start windows, at first i would get mIRC32 open when i start XP and i would close it, no problems but recently when i try to close it it shuts down the opens back up again, as if that wasn't bad enough, i never even installed the damn thing, any thoughts?

Howdy Spellbyte

Looks like you might have a virus on your machine:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com...c.spybuzz.html

Do you have any antivirus software running on your machine, if not I recommend you download and install AVG antivirus which you can find a link to in my signature.

Once you have installed it, boot into safemode and run a scan, you can also run a hijackthis and post the log onto the forum.

While you are in normal windows why don't you run a Panda scan - http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm

thanks for that zimbo, i have got McAfee security on my system and have run a scan a couple of times in normal mode but with no luck, i thought it might have been a virus but as it couldn't find anything i tried running an online trojan scan but for some reason when i ran it in IE a message came up saying that IE was out of system memory, i will run a scan in safe mode ASAP once i have posted my HJT log

Can you also check in your add/remove programs for anything that might relate to Mirc.

I have successfuly removed it, it was in the add/remove programs but i deleted the folder after the scan found it in safe mode, it was embedded in windows/system32/something/XD but anyways it is all gone now, all i gotta do now is remove the registry entries, not a prob though, thanks again zimbo

Nice work, see you soon.