I had a nasty bug last year, I think it came over and activex controll. Regardless, it kept poping up as a service, and wrecking havoc. I would stop the service and delelte the file but no avail. Everytime I rebooted it was back there.

once I figured out it was resident in the memory, very nasty, I turned back to an old standbye. Norton. Now, I never really use norton today, use AVG and Panda for AV mostly. Plus Ad Aware. I don't use Spybot S&D anymore, since the latest version loaded something on my system too, which I didn't like.

But, to get rid of the memory resident I had to do a reboot and boot to the Norton CD. It then was able to purge the memory resident bug and that cleared up all the problems.

If you have something in memory, which is loading at boot, then nothing is going to clean it once the system is up and running.

Kept me from having to reinstall, which would have been costly from a time perspective. Too many financial and corporate apps to reload and configure.

Man, I gotta get better with backups.

good luck