got a quick question. thought I'd pose it to this forum. See what comes back..

a couple of times in the last few weeks, I've noticed that when I'm in Word and roll the mouse cursor over the taskbar, the max'd Word window minimizes and windows goes to the web browser that's usually running behind my Word session..

so when this happens, I save and shut everything down. update my spybot, the malware and antivir programs. then I run the battery of scans..

yesterday when this happened, I came up with the fraudload.fhy trojan out of the system files directory. online resources says it's a low level threat an I got rid of it..

who can tell me about what particular viruses have this effect on the OS, what registry entries to look for, etc to make sure this thing goes away..

thanks in advance!

Hmm? I don't know. I'm a Mac man.

I am not sure what you are asking...what version of word are you using? I have never ever heard of that problem - even with a virus on the computer.

I'm on XP sp3 with offic 03.

the windows keep switching when I run the cursor over the auslogics boostspeed icon, I think, or maybe its the volume icon or the connetivity icon.

I just noticed that it didn't do it until i logged on to this site..

hope that's just a coincidence..

????

Using A mouse of a touch pad thingy....

laser mouse

are you virus free? And Auslogics boost speed sucks...lol

your best bet is either letting your virus scan remove it, if you don't have one I would say reformat the PC with a fresh start. You should never mess with your registry unless you know what your doing, one mistake and your OS is not going to work.