"mto" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:vhl6sv5p77ck54@corp.supernews.com...
> <snip>
> ... install MySearch through Total Uninstall,
> run it and then uninstall it. No guarantees but can't hurt much.
>
... no luck so far ... here's a recap of what I've tried ...

I had been thinking that the Search-Aide mini-browser might have been a
part of MySearch (originally installed on my computer when I tried out
Kazaa), but
it wasn't.
I removed Kazaa via XP's Add/Remove Programs, RegClean, AdAware,
SpyBot-S&D, and regedit. Then I re-installed and uninstalled Kazaa with
Total Uninstall, so theoretically Kazaa and its MySearch are completely
gone. While MySearch was still on my computer I had a look at its
components, none of which involved aide.html.

However I did find the source html on my hard drive. After hitting F9 I
found aide.html in
my ..\Temporary Internet Files folder. (That file's Properties showed the
address http://www.search-aide.com/aide.html .)
When I use IE6's Tools|Options|Delete Files (all Offline Content) the
file is deleted, but it returns when I hit F9.
For what it's worth, I can open ..\Temporary Internet Files\aide.html in
Notepad, but I'm supposing the html itself is harmless. I would guess the
real problem is some program on my system that's detecting the F9 keypress
and then calling the html.

After running the utilities listed above, SpyBot-S&D says I'm now
clean - no spybots, tracking cookies, hijackers, keyloggers, malware or
trojans.
So now I'm trying to track down what I suppose is the real culprit: some
little exe, dll, vbs, js, or wsh file on my computer that hooks onto F9. Am
I on the right track?