[about_that]

Hiya,

Okay, I first saw this when shutting down / rebooting the system (picture will be posted). It consists of chrs followed by 'w' then '*' I've tried using ROOKIT DETECTORS, taskmanager and of course... independant process viewers including port explorer to try and trace any internet activity this program may be doing. I've run spyware scans and anti-virus scans nothing has shown up. I use trendmicro pc-cillin and nothing has shown up. I've also searched through registry trying to find any 'out of normal' programs/executables that seemed suspicious but nothing seems to be out of ordinary.

Since I don't know the exact Chactors used for the program name (this will make sense by viewing hte picture below) I've been unable to even search for it on the search engines.

So I present this picture to see if anyone has seen or can figure it out. I had to use my digital camera whilst the computer shut down and take a photo as that was the only way to see the application name.

[lunarlander]

I would post a HijackThis log for the log specialist to take a look. HijackThis is available here:

http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en...ols/hijackthis

Use "Do a system scan and save a log file", and notepad will open with a log of what it finds, copy and paste the contents here. Don't ask it to fix anything.

[about_that]

I've also had a very skilled person in the feild of virus/malware/spyware look at hijackthis and gmer logs. Nothing has been found from his side either.