is htokgvvy.exe a spyware. I got it from http://buy-traffic.net

The reason that you can not find the exe's names in Google is that you are probably infected with one of the many strains of malware which use random characters to generate their executable names to avoid detection.

These also usually have trojans and keystroke loggers attached, so I wouldn't do much internet banking for a while. Reformat and reinstall then upgrade->SP1->SP2 seems the best solution. There are also several excellent anti-spyware products on the market (NONE of which advertise by spam), and you should install at least one and perhaps two of these along with an antivirus package.

While Firefox and Mozilla give you better protection than IE, you need to be very careful about what you click on. The fact that a site is referenced on Google under a medical search category does not make it clean. It just means that the site was indexed by Googlebot and Google's filters didn't catch the sleeze.

"Jason Edwards" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net:

Probably a random name used by some malware.

Bad idea, unless you want more malware injected directly into your operating system. Try

Which appears to have proven useless.

I think you'll find that the exe file had already executed no matter what zonealarm did.

Probably because it made use of an unpatched IE vulnerability.

You format the drive and restore everything from clean media.

Just more malware. Please find someone in your area who knows how to help you. You may have to pay someone to do it. If for any reason you're not going to do that then start here