Just spent the last half hour picking through my win.ini and registry, plumbing out the last bits of a worm on my system. All clean, now…after purging all manner of yuck. I *highly* recommend Symantec’s Anti-virus center for purging malignant code from your system, it had a number of things to try that I probably wouldn’t have thought of.(especially key names in the registry to deal with… here’s the page I was working with. as an example of some how to’s for doing cleanup. Much useful detail, especially regarding Win Me(h) of which I’m still learning the little extra ins and outs.

trouble with my pooter… now solved was –

Category 4 (Severe):

Dangerous threat type, difficult to contain. The latest virus definitions should be downloaded immediately and deployed.

1) Wild: High

and

2) Damage or Distribution: High

I’m glad that part of my torment is up.