"Kenny Kans" <kalle65_03@yahoo.nospam.please.no> wrote in
news:El83b.15302$BD3.2736009@juliett.dax.net:

> By doing a Ctrl+Alt+Del I find a service/program named mshta.exe
> running. By shutting this service down the 'Searchengine' shuts down
> and disappears. However it starts up again on the next startup or
> login. I've tried to delete mshta.exe from the Windows-catalogue, but
> to no use - on the next startup or login it's there again.
>


Mshta is an microsoft program used to run some "html applications"
(whatever that means). It is basically a runtime engine for running other
applications. So it looks like whatever adware you have is using mshta to
run itself.

Mshta being a system file is probably auto-restored by windows.

I would use something like "Hijack This" or "StartupList"
(http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/index.html) to find the thing that is
starting the "SearchEngine" of each bootup.

data64