Hey everyone, Suddenly WINWORD.exe seems to always be running in my task manager even though microsoft word is not open. When I do open it, winword.exe is still in the task manager. When I close it, it stays. What is going on??? Oh, and whenever I open Microsoft Word, the Document title changes numerically as if I had already opened a bunch of new word templates. So like if I were to open word now, it would say Document 10 in the title bar. Then I would close out of word as per usual. Yet, when I open up word again it says Document 11 in the title (when normally it would resume the default number of 1). Help me out!

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I don't see how I could have a virus if I have Internet Security and Norton Antivirus all up to date and on Auto Protect with a firewall and tons of other crap. Is this a known virus? Or does it just seem like it might be one? Either way I guess I'll do a system scan.

Found the problem, I opened word and there seemed to be a document open in the background that did not show up anywhere...really weird. O well, you can delete this post since it has no reason to be up here.