Also, if anyone could suggest other forces at work (besides malware) that could be behind these sporadic shutdowns... ghouls ...goblins ...power...
At least the extra annoying toolbars are all gone now ::)
Ok... I followed your instructions Pieter, but I have the sense something is still wrong on this system. Also the Ad-aware plug-in VX2 Cleaner...
I finally disabled spybot's immunization feature so I could dl the uninstall software for malicious software/toolbars from allaboutsearching.com...
I ran ad-aware first (it corrected approx 140 issues), then Symantec antivirus (which found nothing) then... since problems still occurred I dl'd...
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