Thank you for your help. i have multiple notepad.exe running under the processes tab but there is no notepad app running. this is right after startup and after i get rid of them they come back up. thank you Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.0 (BETA) Scan saved at 10:50:50 AM, on 06/05/2007 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:
