[Atrocities]

My brother finally decided to get back on line so he dug out his old 2003 Compaq PC and asked me to do updates for him. So I hooked this standard POS up to my network to give it broad band access and had it start to do its windows update.

Well it found nearly a 100 updates it wanted to install including XP Home SP 2. After all the updates were done, after many restarts, and many more updates, the process was completed.

However much to my utter disgust a problem cropped up.

Now whenever I click on my computer, windows explorer, or try to open or use any MS system files like Explorer or any program such as OFFICE, microsoft money 2002 trys to install itself.

Each and every time.

Well this cannot be right... so I download the Microsoft Cleaner Utility that is suppose to fix this. I run it and remove microsoft money 2002 from the Add/Remove registry.

Restart, and the problem is still presistant. Ok, so I try to delete the folder manually, no joy. It won't let me delete half of the files. Great, so I opened the regeditor and deleted every last single notation for MS Money, Micorosft Money, Money, and everything else I could find related to this *****.

The problem is still persistant. I cannot find this GD thing. It isn't on the system any where. Even in safe mode I cannot find this damn thing..

No it is not a virus, it is directly related to XP Home SP2 update.

Any one else have this problem? Any suggestions? (Shooting the PC won't help.)

Thanks.