A friend of mine seems to have numerous problems and maybe they are all related, i can't tell. He had on his computer a trial version of McAfee Antivirus. But of course it wasn't the full package. It was virus, pop-up blocker and antispam. He got the program free with his new computer. He kept it up to date and he said there were no problems until now. The problems he has are varied * Some websites he can't visit, or he can visit sometimes and not other times. * Some programs seem to grab 100% of the CPU especially when he visits certain websites. One of them is the orange website, who provide him with is internet access. He has a webmail account with them, and sometimes when visits the site, he then can't do anything on his computer, but end the internet explorer program. He is using ie7. A more worrying this is this. He gets a lot of Window dialog boxes popping saying, well here is an example Windows title: Microsoft Internet Explorer (X) (?) Mighty cleaner may find dangerous traces that need to be cleaned. ..... Click Ok to start mighty cleaner scanner to remove compromising traces... <OK> <Cancel> Also on the bottom right hand side of the screen is a web page that says web page title: WARNING You must protect your system from threats - Windows Internet Explorer. The web page starts http://mightycleaner. when i cancelled it i put it in the blocked websites area He then uninstalled McAfee, i think he was a bit miffed with them, because they didn't tell him it was only partial protection, but they were taking £60 a year off him. He put on Norton 360, but he still gets these pop up Windows Explorer dialog boxes. Is there a way to stop people doing this? Its one thing to have a web page pop up blocker, but it doesn't stop the Windows dialog boxes popping up. Below is a list of all the running programs on his computer. i haven't had time to check them. Are any of the rouge programs that should be removed? Current running processes rundll32.exe ipodservice.exe alg.exe wkcalrem.exe mhprmind.exe ccsvchst.exe skype.exe ctdetect.exe cfmon.exe reminder.exe logitechdesktopmessenger.exe ntp.exe jusched.exe realsched.exe ctsvccda.exe aluschedulersvc.exe apdproxy.exe cdacc11ba.exe csrss.exe ctsvcda.exe ctsysvol.exe dragdiag.exe dvdlauncher.exe explorer.exe 80mb hkcmd.exe iexplore.com 48mb igfxpers.exe ipodeservice.exe itunerhelper.exe kservice.exe 15mb logtray.exe lass.exe magnify.exe 15mb mspmspv.exe services.exe skype.exe 35mb skypepm.exe 20mb spoolsv.exe svchost.exe 30mb symlcsvc.exe system system idele process taskmgr.exe tfswctrl.exe winlogon.exe wkcalrem.exe msconfig mcafee application installer clean up automatic application installer clean up scheduler c-dillacdac11ba symantec event manager symantec settings manager symantec live net connect service com host creative service for cdrom access installdriver table manager ipodservice kservice liveupdate mscsptisrv microsoft office diagnostics service office source engine PACSPTISVR SONY SPTI SERVICE symantec CORE LC Messenger sharing folders usn journal reader service windows media player network sharing service

Peacock Your post is extremely hard to read. Your friend has too much junk running. There must be at least a dozen processes I don't recognise. Have your friend remove all non-essential programs from the startup group and enter the program setup of some of the others to change the settings that have them run at startup. Googling each listing in task manager may give a clue to what it is for. Have him install CCleaner and run it on a regular basis. AntiVirus suites are difficult to remove. Usually takes a removal tool from the AV site.

There sure is a lot of crap loading at startup...many are unnecessary or can be started on an "as-needed" basis. Get rid of Norton, it's a bloated hog. Try a freebie such as Avast! or AVG Free 8.0. And get yourself a Trojan Remover & disable System Restore before running it. Google "mspmspv.exe" "And that's the fishing line, because Sharkboy said so!"