Renaming offensive file is your safest bet.Phew, I'm glad you managed to finally figure it out! Quite frankly, I was running out of ideas. Taking a quick look at your HijackThis log, I don't see anything malicious. One suggestion, though... If you don't want to RENAME the file, you can open up your mouse options and see if there is an option to disable automatic updating. Or you could try removing this entry in HJT...

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [IntelliPoint] "C:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliPoint\ipoint.exe"

As far as I know, the file is non-essential. If this is disabled, then dpupdchk should be disabled as well. To use them, you would have to run the program manually. At least, this is how it should work out. I have never used an IntelliPoint mouse before, so I'm not 100% sure about this. If you want to test it out, I would suggest having a backup mouse just in case you need to undo the changes (you can do this through HJT's menu).

If you'd rather not bother, then simply renaming the file should work.http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/startups/ipoint.exe-18993.html
ipoint.exe - required if you use non-standard Windows driver featuresBad news. That wasn't it. I thought for sure I had it licked but it started up again by itself tonight. Man this is frustrating. One thing I did notice though - if I hibernate and then remove the power to the computer (by turning off the power strip it's plugged into) I can then turn the power back on and the computer remains in hibernate! Not sure what this means but hope it helps somehow :-) Where I'm at now... I removed about a dozen programs I installed in the last TWO weeks because I was going to do a system restore from back then but didn't have to restore. The problem is gone. So now I'm installing the programs one at a time and testing. I'll post what I find out. What I hate more than the computer coming out of hibernate by itself is that it wouldn't hibernate by itself after a set time either. I like to set it to scan at night and go to sleep and have it shut down. It was staying on all night. I don't know what's up but I guess I got it fixed. I just reinstalled most of the programs I just uninstalled and everythings working fine so far. I think I'll quit while I'm ahead. :-) Sure wish I could have found out what it was so I could post it here - I will if I ever find out :-) That's one of the reasons, I never recommend hibernate. It's simply faulty tool, and M$ was never able to make it work 100%.Hey, I'm just glad it's working out for you. Like Broni said, hibernate isn't exactly the most reliable feature, so it can be pretty TRICKY trying to make it work properly. You might want to make a System Restore point now while it still works! Heh.My curiosity got the best of me :-) I had to keep on installing the things I removed till I found the culprit lol. I must be a geek at heart - been working on this for days lol. I found the culprit - default setup of system mechanic has two items set to active. If I set all active functions to disable then no problems :-) whew :-)Nice investigation, but this time it's gonna be for sure, is it?....LOLTime to get serious about a regimented backup strategy....
If you need suggestions Post back.Yep - no problems last night - never started up. And it hibernated by itself too. I do have backups - I use system restore a lot (about 10 times in the last few days hehe) and I have Acronis disk image software. I am going to make another image tonight I think. Thanks again for all your help and suggestions everyone. I learned a lot about malware even though that wasn't my problem I'm checking into the online TRAINING LINKS posted in this forum - I think I'd like to become a helper eventually. It's kinda fun Quote from: gitman7 on August 08, 2008, 03:44:40 PM

I learned a lot about malware even though that wasn't my problem I'm checking into the online training links posted in this forum - I think I'd like to become a helper eventually. It's kinda fun