I received a call this morning to look at a system that was "freaking out". There are 15-20 icons on the desktop for everything from porn to credit cards (interesting how those two go hand-in-hand ) and everytime the icons are removed and the computer restarted they reappear. The system is a HP running XP Home. The Norton Personal Firewall is continually warning of outbound TCP traffic and when "Block" is selected along with "Always Use This Action" it doesn't seem to have much effect. The computer will not shut down and is EXTREMELY slow -about 10 minutes to open a single Word file.

I too did a search on google and found only a handful of results, this site being one of them. I even searched Norton and McAfee's sites to no avail.

If ANYONE has a solution or tested suggestion for removal I would (along with the others) appreciate it very much!

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