Elminster:
At this point I don’t know, which installer, all I can tell you it was the ANTI Virus available (by link off of COMODO Site) late thrusday or friday of last week
The reason I mention CavemLSP.DLL, it is the Dll that was accessing my hard drive NON stop… When I rebooted in safe mode, deleted the file, my accesses to my hard drive stopped. However I lost all TCP/UDP controls…
According to all the tests I ran, it was the instruction set from this DLL… In looking at CPU activity this DLL was the one calling out to my hard drive and also using about 90 % CPU time for hours, One test ran an hour and a half and my drive heated up to 140 degrees, CPU up 10 degrees… I had to place an external fan on the undercarriage of my lap top to keep it from shutting down… The last time I had to place an external fan on my laptop, iwas with the usage of Spin Rite 6.0 ( that was expected )
Something to note, in the Services area, the Uninstall, leaves two services still running.
According to HiJackThis, 4 Items are loaded accessing the TCP, UDP and TCPPIP…
This is the reason I assumed it was this DLL…
Also, it is a fact, the Install program is changing the registery file, to stop pointing to WinSOCK.
According to Spybot, the correct pointers should point to MSwSock.dll for TCP, UDP and RawIP…
When the install occures, the pointers to MSwSock.Dll are removed and 4 pointers to CavemLSP.dll are then paced in the REG file and remain there even after uninstall…
If I were the coder, I would write the REG file enteries of MSwSock.dll into a file, and restore them at uninstall… I realize Windows XP utility to remove REG entries at best works maybe ( I have had trouble with this myself) , I can’t help but think there is some utility out there which can. M$ does offer a comand switch for RegEdit, but I have had bad luck using it, it does not always work…
I dont know why you have not had a problem… perhaps we can swap TSR lists and HiJackThis logs to see how our systems differ…
Thank you again for your most pleasent feed back
Kurt