what is aornum.exe & how would it have gotten on my computer? should i get rid of it & if so, how? thank you! J-

See an earlier thread. http://www.computing.net/security/wwwboard/forum/1788.html

hi J Croughwell, aornum is may be called a trojan spyware created by a company called iwon or something like that. what it does is reports back info from your machine to their company. it should be destroyed and the company should be boycotted as it causes many problems such as not being able to delete it as it starts up over and over. what you want to do is restart your computer in safe mode, go to program files in explorer, and delete any and all references to aornum such as ornum, aornum, aornum1.bin, and aornum.exe, also remove it from your start up processes and anywhere else you can find it, using the find files in your windows operating system, then reboot your machine. you may also want to do a search in your registry for aornum, and if found just delete the aornum key value. hopefully someone out there will have more info on this pain in the *ss company and trojan spyware. for more info on this and other spyware go to www.thepublicworks.com security section and link to tomcat, lots of info there. hope this helps, murve

Could the increase of pop-ups that I have been getting be related to this " aornum.exe " file? Here of late I hav been receiveing a lot of adult type pop -ps.