Hello All,
I have a nasty little bit going on. I am running WinXPsp2 with Avast home ver. 4.7.844 VPS 0624-2. Along about three days ago I booted the machine and when Windows finished, I got an error message saying that the avast mail scanner was unable to complete Error:1022 followed by an error popup saying that the application was unable to execute and to press OK to close. The application name was nilm.exe. When I pressed OK the application (error message) duplicated. The file nilm.exe is placed in the windows directory and deleting it does nothing. It is replaced when I boot or attempt to start Internet Explorer. Avast cleaner finds nilm.exe. At first there were 1600 instances, but when it began deleting them it increased to 2900. I know that there must be some file that replaces this nuisance, but I can't find it. Avast, Ad-aware, and Ewido can't find it. I did a search for this in the forums and found an old reference to it with no resolution. There is a file for National Instruments with the same name, but trust me it's not the same file.
I could really use some help on this. The machine is crashing with a stop error that Microsoft has not heard of other than an SP2 conflict with some skin application that I have never heard of.
Before you ask, I don't know where this came from. Really. The most recent download came from Verizon when I upgraded to the FIOS service, but that was a week ago. I saw a post where Yahoo mail was hit with a virus, but not the one I'm dealing with. All suggestions appreciated.
Thanks,
Cam