When I ran McAfee, I had the same problem---couldn't get rid of it.
I was running their AV and thought I'd try their firewall. Didn't like it, because it locked up my system. So, I went back to ZoneAlarm.
Every so often something McAfee would try to load. I'd scandisk, run fixit, try every registry cleaner, etc. McAfee would still try to load something every few days.
I finally had to do a format and reinstall everything to get rid of it.
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I can't get RealPlayer to load. Something happened late last week, because it was working. Now, nothing. It won't even fully install.
System Restore won't work either. XP may be good, but it isn't that great. I need to do a clean and reinstall [drats!].
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