Paul, since you didn't answer my other questions, I will paste them from
the other post:
You had written:
My system may still have Malware because some new strange things
started happening today.
"Still have malware"?
I know you were scanning for malware, but I don't recall you ever saying
that you had any.
Did you have malware at one point? And I don't mean tracking cookies. I
mean actual malicious software running. Did you? Because if you did, I
echo what others said with regard to scanning further for malware.
MBAM and SAS are definite musts.
HijackThis: maybe.
If you never had malware, then your problem is probably due to one of
your programs (perhaps even the CA suite you have). Or maybe AdAware is
your problem and you figured that out.
Again, let us know if your idling figures deviate from what I indicated
above. But if you are at 99% System Idle Process while idling, I'm not
sure you have any problems.
That being said, if you did have actaul malware at one point in time,
you're not necessarily out of the woods yet.
Also...
Regarding your IE not opening "all of a sudden," that could be because
of the following two reasons:
1. Malware
2. A program and/or setting conflict or a recent update (or the result
of removing particular files based upon a recent scan).
So, you need to be specific about the malware history of this PC. If you
had malware, please tell us which malicious program(s) you had and how
you dealt with it/them.
If you never had malware and if this problem occurred *immediately*
after the OneCare scan, everything points to that, don't you agree?
Especially since others have experienced the same exact thing.
If you are afraid to do anything, that's a good thing.
That is, you
should always be doing regular backups. My preference is to use a
program like Acronis True Image to image the entire hard drive. Once
evereything is sufficiently backed up, the fear should go away.
