hey guestolo, I found a new file on my c drive...actually just in the c folder itself. I opened the registry and did a search there and found it there as well...along with a whole host of other entries that if I remember correctly, were bad items, such as fastsearchweb, hdmoo.dll, connmie.dll, dm.inf, normal.dot, just to name a few...unfortunately, I cannot copy/paste the list. the items are in the folowing directory: HKEY_CURRENT_USER>>Microsoft>>Search Assistant>>5603
I was just wondering if these are things that should be deleted or not.

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