Firefox.exe won't terminate & is loaded on startip?

[Kaiju]

Firefox.exe won't terminate & is loaded on startup?

I've did some research and found a certain spyware called Poison Ivy could be the cause, but ran various spyware/AV and nowt to show for it.

I just downloaded a process tool and the cmd line shows:

C:\PROGRA~1\MOZILL~1\FIREFOX.EXE -url "%1" -requestPending

I removed Firefox and it's gone, so I think that rules out anything malicious, but any ideas or reasons why this request pending is coming up as when I reinstall I get the same issue.

 

[Kaiju]

Turned out I had two quaint little registry keys that were running "loader.exe" and "windows.exe" from my system32 folder. These buggers were what were both slowing down my startup and causing my system to hang. Got rid of them and my boot into XP is instant (not 30secs) and I get no hangs anymore.

It's all in this thread.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=467349

I suggest you all read it as they are currently undetectable with spyware/AV programs at the moment.