Odd Startup Dialogue

[kosokuadam]

Whenever I boot into Windows, right after I log in to my account (there are no others on the computer), it gives me the "select a program" dialogue box for a file called "Adam." This is my username, and surely enough it exists, alone, just a generic "file" in the "Users" folder.

This dialogue is odd, but if this is common/heard of before, would it be damaging to delete this random file?

 

[devenprasad]

Im thinking that it may be some spyware, have you ran a security program on the machine yet. Also nice vaio!

 

[kosokuadam]

Uh yeah I have...I run regular scans on Norton 360. And Thanks .

 

[alphanumeric]

You might want to open up msconfig and have a look under the startup tab for a startup item named Adam. It sounds like a file is being run that has no default program associated with it. Windows doesn't know what to use to run or open it. Maybe something in your startup folder?

 

[kosokuadam]

No such thing. I just opened it up with Word (it's just Unicode text), and it's a bunch of wireless configuration stuff. I'm going to have someone else I know look at it as well.