[LennonCook]

Originally posted by SpiritWarrior: Thank you for the replies, guys. The earlier suggestions didn't work for me unfortunately but I finally found the solution here http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;319095 I still have some sort of trojan parading around and I can't seem to get rid of it. Norton picks it up as an IE hijack but always 'fails' when I try to remove it. Spybot and Adaware find it, seem to delete it and yet the process msmsgs.exe (I mispelled it earlier in my post) continues to boot up. If I 'end task' on it, it re-appears 5 minutes later. It is not windows messenger but (from what I read) a trojan disguised as one. Both MSN and Windows Messenger (the one in the startup services tab) are disabled and from its persistant behavior it acts like a virus or worm. Anyone heard of this one yet? I even looked for certain registry keys recommended by Norton for manual deletion yet they weren't there, leading me to beleive that maybe this process is all that remains but is in effect, doing nothing. Still, it bugs me that its there : /.

Norton antivirus? There's your problem. Replace it with AVG Free (linked above) - download AVG, uninstall Norton, install AVG, run AVG, watch problems disapear.