My Documents at startup

Whenever my boss's Win2K computer starts up, it opens IE to his homepage (he wants it to - put it in the Startup folder) and it also opens the My Documents folder as if it'd been double-clicked. He has no idea what he did to make it do that, and I can't figure it out either. Any help is appreciated. TIA

Mark

 

Hi Mark.

Assuming that Windows Explorer isn't in either his startup or the all users startup, then it's puzzling behavior.

These days, the first thought when seeing unusual behavior has to be spyware/malware/hijack/virus and since those are fairly easy to confirm or rule out, it's a good place to start. Not sure what you are running on the PC but for now

- Go to quicklinks (from my signature) and get the current versions of Spybot (v1.3), Ad-aware (SE or Personal), and Hijackthis.
- install, update, and run Ad-aware then let it remove all it finds. Set it to the maximum scanning it can do via options from the gear wheel symbol.
- install, update, and run Spybot. Remove all items it flags as bad things.
- empty the TIF.
- unzip Hijackthis to a folder of it's own (so not desktop or a temp folder) and run it. When the scan is done you will have the option to save a scan log. Do that and then paste a copy of the log here for review. DO NOT fix anything before we've had a look.

Moving this to security for the time being.