Menu keeps popping up --MVP please help me!!!!!

[Kira]

I have posted this a few times but I may not be describing
this propoerly. My computer sporadically pops up a grey
background colored menu with a list of shortcuts to all of
the files in "my documents". The menu does not pop up in
response to any specific action that i take, no keystrokes
in particular. Sometimes I am not typing when it comes up.
It is always accompanied by the sound of my hard drive
engaging. The menu does not go away if I click onto the
desktop. I have to choose one of the files to open in
order for it to go away. This is not a pop up ad. Please
somebody help me!!!!!

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Run a scan for virus.

Run a spyware removal tool (Ad-Aware 6)

Install and use a firewall (software)


You may be the victim of a hacker who has taken control of your system.

Y.

 

[Guest]

I tried out the pop up ad stuff to try to see if this was a
pop up ad in disguise but it isn't. I am running Norten
Internet Security 2004 right now so I am up to date. Has
anybody ever seen a menu appear on their screen
uninvitedly? It is a grey menu. It covers about 1/3 of
the screen and it contains shortcuts to documents I have
created on my harddrive. Mostly MS documents but pictures
and sound clips too. The only way to make it go away is to
open one of the documents.

 

[Sharon F]

I have posted this a few times but I may not be describing
this propoerly. My computer sporadically pops up a grey
background colored menu with a list of shortcuts to all of
the files in "my documents". The menu does not pop up in
response to any specific action that i take, no keystrokes
in particular. Sometimes I am not typing when it comes up.
It is always accompanied by the sound of my hard drive
engaging. The menu does not go away if I click onto the
desktop. I have to choose one of the files to open in
order for it to go away. This is not a pop up ad. Please
somebody help me!!!!!

When this menu like item appears, can you right click on the text "My
Documents," select Toolbars and uncheck "My Documents"? I ask this because
your description sounds like a floating toolbar for My Documents.

With a toolbar that has been configured to AutoHide, it would come into
view whenever the mouse cursor passed over the area where the toolbar was
hiding.

Example: If you left click and drag the "My Computer" icon from Windows
Explorer and drop it at the very edge of the monitor, a My Computer toolbar
appears. It has a background similar to that seen in a right click menu and
lists the same items you would see in a My Computer window. Right click to
see the AutoHide, other configurable options and the "Toolbars" option
where you can uncheck My Computer to remove the toolbar from the desktop.