At the risk of cluttering up this great BBS with 'post repair' info, kudos to the team here at CastleCops for getting me out of a quagmire! Had what turned out to be a Vundo infection which may have been spawned by Huntbar, but in any event it's now repaired. This site was recommended by http://www.windowsbbs.com/ - another excellent site which has been an incredible help over the years. My symptoms were the innumerable and never-ending popups designed to have a 'windows' look and feel, all purporting to have 'found' an infection and suggesting 'click here' for removal software. Additionally, two desktop icons were continually propogated, looking like shields and having the following names/properties targets: Online Security Guide/http://htepo.com/cehpkoin/?mp=h5lid=1_1gai=..... ; and Live Safety Center/http://htepo.com/cehpkoin/?mp=h5lid=2_1gai=..... . Continual attempts to invoke internet connectivity were made by the culprit and a pseudo-IE window appeared while still offline. By following the Malware Removal and Prevention overview here at CastleCops I finally got relief by Vundofix's discovery/removal of the following C:\windows\system32\ files:aacdd.bak1, aacdd.bak2, aacdd.ini, cdjuktmq.dllbox,ddcaa.dll,ljjijhe.dll and ]b]ygnmpvyy.dll.[/b] Thanks to all who administer and contribute to this site... it's very much appreciated!

Thank you for your nice comments, but this is really the wrong forum for them. I have moved this topic to our General Site Forum