Reply #20: Another good one, althought you need to use it with care..

[Princess Turandot]

is 'Hijack This". You can download it at:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

It is about halfway down the page. It will identify all sorts of things running on your computer. If you try it, and turn up quite a few items, don't start deleting things on your own unless you know exactly what they are. Click on save log, which I just save to the Hijack This folder. Then open it with notepad and copy what it says.


Then go to the nice folks at ComputerCops.biz to their Hijack forum & let someone help you by posting your results into the HJ forum.

Here is the Hijack This forum page:
http://computercops.biz/forum67.html

You need to register, but it is no big deal to do so.

(This page will give you an idea of what the types of items are that it finds:
http://computercops.biz/HijackThis.html)