Adware and Internet Explorer

From: Joanne (Joanne_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:38:16 -0700

I have been battling several rounds of infection recently (various Adware forms-Binet, OMI, Winpup, ClearSearch, as well as Download.Trojan)

While Norton Antivirus showed that I was clean, I was still having problems with pop-ups on Internet Explorer. Then, Friday I tried to open Explorer and received an error message which generates a text file(appcompt.txt) which is rather lengthy and which does not mean much to me.

I'm running version 6.0.2600.3 with Windows XP.

The problem is I don't know if the problem with Internet Explorer is related to the virus infections or if it is a side issue. As far as I can tell I've eliminated all threats from my computer, but I have a nasty feeling that Norton Antivirus has not detected all infected files. I finally found directions yesterday to delete id53.exe (which Norton had not detected), but still cannot open Internet Explorer. Can anyone steer me in the right direction?

Many thanks in advance. 

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Joanne
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