Hans writes:

<<for the second time this month i have had a icon called openme.exe appear
on my desktop,i then delete the icon and after doing a file search,i found
openme.exe in c:windows,i delete that also.then i had to go into the winini
to get rid of the message "on boot up"that it cant open it.>>

It's most unlikely to be spyware. Spyware doesn't advertise its presence
(that would defeat its purpose).

if not a virus, then my guess is that it would steer your browser to some
website like the infernal X-Camera popup (which I trust no-one in their
right mind would consider purchasing or even visiting...let's not encourage
this pernicious form of advertising).

Presumably you've now eliminated it from your system.  Please let us all
know if you discover which website(s) is responsible, so that we can avoid it.

Don Penlington


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