Like a fool I went and downloaded all these games from Kazaa. What makes this foolish are some of em are in .exe, which is an executable file and contain unwanted material, which I finally ran into. About 10 games in, I downloaded something that was supposed to be Medal of Honor Allied Assault, and it turned out to give me 163 .exe files in My Shared Folder. I deleted em all, erased em entirely with CyberScrub, and then restarted. When I got to the desktop, it said I was running in Selective Startup, and a DOS box would open. I would close it but it would take forever, and if I wait for it to close, it readds the 163 programs to My Shared Folder. What should I do? (I might just migrate to WinXP, but not sure.)

If your having security problems i would try the computing.net security and virus forum. Upgrading your operating system wont solve the problems your having and wont solve the problem from happening again. Before throwing money at a new operating system you could always format and reinstall the existing one.

Start in safe mode - then delete the files from the folder using Explorer. Then go to start/run and type in msconfig Go to the startup tab and remove the program that is causing the problem by unticking it. This prevents the program from running next time round. Then get regcleaner and go through your registry and remove the items you didn't want to install if there are no entries in the control panel/add-remove programs list for the apps causing problems. Be aware in downloading software from Kazaa network - a lot of these carry viruses! If in doubt - do a system restore from a time when everything was working ok and take note of how dodgy software can be from these sources. Hope this helps... Mark

Best of all : Just stop using Kazaa.

Try a virus scan also. http://housecall.trendmicro.com -Burbble

hello when d/ling soft ware from any p2p system allways have your anti virus turned on to active scan with up to date definitions, scan file after d/l is complete and do complete system scan set for huristics after first use. have a nice day