What's this program running on my machine?

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Hello. I keep getting this little task pop-up thing with a little white box with a blue horrizontal line across the top in my task bar. The whole thing just randomly pops up and then disappears after a few seconds---it's too fast for me to click on it to see what it is. It also disrupts my screen saver. I turned my computer off and I had that "end now" box that came up before I could shutdown. Apparently there were two programs running I had no idea about: __PIAWIA and Windows Forums Parking Windows.

Are these viruses? How do I get rid of them?

Any help would be most appreciated. Thank you!

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A couple of ideas:

http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_read_a_message_that_flies_by_too_quickly_on_my_screen.html

and

http://ask-leo.com/how_can_i_track_what_programs_come_and_go_on_my_machine.html

And of course make sure your anti-virus and anti-spyware programs both
have up to date databases.

Leo
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What is the program running in the background? On the task bar there is a task w/ a box in it. When I click on the task nothing happens. Before I was able to log off the computer and it would disappear but now it constantly stays on the screen. Can it be a virus?

how come my computer got lagier the next day and what antivirus do you recemend that i should use

My wife downloaded two screen savers, :(
When she tried to install something went wrong.
now the two .exe files are on the desktop (where she DL them) and we can't delete/move them and no screensaver to run.

When we try to delete them we get a message telling us that another program or person is using them.

I have tried several online Virus/spyware, etc and although they found and cleaned a few things it did not fix this one and we still can't get rid of them.

I tried to look them up in the task mgr and I see no listing or anything out of the normal.

Can you help????

I even log off and progam is runnig

Why when I go to shut down my pc does this pop up
come up that says other people are on your computer and if you shut down now they will lose information? Has some person or persons hacked into my computer?

I am tring to speed up my computer, I have a HUGE list on the "started" services from control-adm tools-services. I am scared i may delete the wrong ones. I did you answer this question 'I WANT TO END SOME OF THE PROCESSES RUNNING ON MY COMPUTER BECAUSE THEY ARE MAKING MY COMPUTER SLOWER... HOW DO I KNOW WHICH ONES NOT TO END, WHICH ONES ARE VERY IMPORTANT, AND WHICH ONES I CAN END???" Does deleting the history on your pages make it slower or faster? Help

i have deleted my history ,cookies , removed stuff i dont use thru the removal tool in control panel, delete recycle bin,run spy ware, defragment tool. What else can I do to Speed up things.

k so i am listing this on many sites trying to find an answer to this process. running on my win 2000 laptop its called trickler_bic_do. if anyone has an idea on this process's origins it would be helpful. when this is running system resoures are used upp at an alarming rate until reduced to zero and cpu stays pegged full load. it can be ended but starts back up just as fast. not seen as virus by many many checkers or ad adware or ect... any help would be useful

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