Can someone tell me what aornum.exe is? I'm running Win 98 and see this in the Startup menu showing the directory of "program files\ornum\aornum1\1.bin\aornum.exe" I'm trying to figure out if I really need this application executed during startup.

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Found this on an earlier post. 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,

I have this program on my computer. Thanks for the info, but I'm wondering, what kind of info does it send from my computer? I am a member of Iwon, and I love their site, use it as my homepage. How did it get onto my computer? The problems I am having are, my computer dialing up to the internet out of the blue, with no prompt asking me if I'd like to connect or why it's wanting to connect. Also, when I got to shut down my computer, it will pop up that aornum is not responding (or something like that) and asks if I'd like to end the program now. Thanks, Jennifer

I ran Ad-Aware with the current signature file and cleaned up all references to IWON, AORNUM, and ORNUM. It appears ILOST with IWON because the trojan still popped up with a search assist task. IWON can't pay me enough for the headaches this thing has caused. They have lost me as a user forever. The only safe thing appears to be to delete everything off my hard drive and reinstall Windows-XP. IWON should be helping people get rid of this instead of covering it up.

I just upgraded my firewall, and a new feature alerts me to any application on my computer which requests access to the Internet. Among the first requests was Ornum. I had no idea what it was, so I searched the name and found this site. I checked "block access" until I could find out what Ornum was. I used I Won for the search that led me to this site, and I do like I Won even though I know it has spyware. So far, blocking Ornum's access seems to cause no problems, but I'll soon find out if blocking Ornum has any adverse effects I suppose. Thank you for the information on Ornum and where it came from. Liz

So fer, I have deleted all references to aornum from my system, and had no repercussions. I thank all of you for informing me about this situation, as I too was wondering what the Hades it was, especially since my system had it listed to load on boot three times. If anyone needs to look it up, use msconfig in the run box.