I just asked for help on Eradicating IE 6 from XP. I will explain why. AO has some good program types who may be able to answer this.

While surfing; I suddenly got 'dialup' software being installed in the background (and 'hot sex tool bar', etc, etc). My IE toolbars are locked...and as far as I can tell, IE 6 has all the patches to prevent malicious code.

However......I noticed (finally) that ISTsvc is running as a process. (wasn't there a couple weeks ago) With a bit of searching, ISTsvc seems to be an ActiveX component.

Is this a valid component ? Or is it a vulnerability - allowing programs to be installed 'silently' (according to an ISTsvc txt file)

Thanks