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My guess is that you have malware or a virus, what you are experiencing is a trademark.
See if you can use this. It does not require a download and may be able to be updated. Run the scan and let us know
Free ESET Online Antivirus Scanner - New Features<
If you know when the problem started go back a week prior with system restore. Only if the first test is negative.
System Restore - How to

Also try renaming Super Antispyware to something else like sas.

Great approach. You know I never thought of that one.

Lets try a few other things first, to try and find the cause
Set up a clean boot and then see if it works
How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7
If that does not work, here if info on proxy
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...ernet-Explorer
I dont think that you need a proxy setting, turn it off.

Go to Super Antispyware site and download the portable version save it to a USB stick and run it from there. In your firewall you would need core networking allowed for the updates.

If nothing else works, give this a try for Seven or Vista
Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper - Windows 7 Forums

Try scanning your computer with the AVG Rescue CD. You will need to download it and burn it to a disc, then boot from this disc

AVG - Rescue CD | PC Rescue and Repair Toolkit

How to download and create AVG Rescue CD

How to remove an infection with the AVG Rescue CD

OTL

Download OTL to your desktop.
Double click on the icon to run it. Make sure all other windows are closed to let it run uninterrupted.
When the window appears, underneath Output at the top change it to Minimal Output.
Under the Standard Registry box change it to All.
Check the boxes beside LOP Check and Purity Check.
Click the Run Scan button. Do not change any settings unless otherwise told to do so. The scan wont take long.
When the scan completes, it will open two notepad windows. OTL.Txt and Extras.Txt. These are saved in the same location as OTL.
Please copy (Edit->Select All, Edit->Copy) the contents of these files, one at a time, and post it with your next reply.


Once OTL has completed its first scan it will save notepad copies of the scans in the folder that OTL was started from. Unless set to produce an Extras log it will only produce OTL.txt in subsequent scans.

A copy of an OTL fix log is saved in a text file at

:\_OTL\MovedFiles
in most cases this will be C:\_OTL\MovedFiles

Please attach both OTL.txt and Extras.txt with your next post for me to analyse

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

Download and install MBAM from here
Run a full scan and attach the log with your next post for me to analyse

CKScanner

Please download CKScanner from here to your Desktop.

Make sure that CKScanner.exe is on the your Desktop before running the application!

Double-click on CKScanner.exe and click Search For Files.
After a very short time, when the cursor hourglass disappears, click Save List To File.
A message box will verify the file saved
Attach the log CKFiles.txt that has been created on your desktop with your next post

HijackThis

Please download HijackThis from Trend Micro - Hijackthis

Click on the "Do a system scan and save a log file" button. Attach the log with your next post

Please post back with: OTL.txt, Extras.txt, CKFiles.txt, the malwarebytes log and the hijackthis log attached. See this

Tom