cOOL program/virus/worm/spyware?

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 05/13/04 

Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 01:04:33 -0700

Oh..forgot to mention:
I'm running Windows XP Professional and use Norton AV, if
that makes a difference.

>-----Original Message-----
>For the last week or so (as if Sasser didn't create
>enough havoc), when I load up my computer, I get a
little
>bar in my task bar that says "cOOL", but it doesn't show
>anything on the desktop. Well, at first, it showed an
>error screen that said "An error has occured while
>executing this program. Free up harddrive space and try
>again." and gave me an option of clicking OK or closing
>the box. Then I downloaded some spyware removal programs
>and then nothing at all came up when cOOL loaded up.
>
>When I go into my task manager, it shows the program
>there. When the error message was popping up, the
process
>it was associated with was patch.exe. I went into
>Add/Remove programs just to see if it was there. Sure
>enough, it was. So I click on "Change/Remove". A box
>opened up and I could either click yes or no, but I
>couldn't see what I was clicking yes or no to. There
>weren't any instructions in the box, just the choices. I
>fumbled through it and clicked yes a time or two (it
>offered me a second box after I clicked yes, but I don't
>remember what the exact option was). After that, when I
>would load the task manager and try to close down that
>specific application, it would come up with a blank
>window with just a button that said "status". If I click
>on "status" another window inside the first one would
>appear. Neither window had options across the top or
said
>anything that I could see (and I tried highlighting with
>my mouse).
>
>I have updated Norton, I have downloaded almost every
>spyware finder available(and their most recent
>definitions) and have done search after search for this
>cOOL thing on the web and I'm not finding ANYTHING for
>it. It's driving me nuts not knowing what it is or how
to
>fix it.
>
>Please tell me someone around here can help?
>
>Thanks.
>msamples1974@yahoo.com
>.
>

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