You're assuming malware is the reason for your problem, but there are other things 
that can cause problems with IE. Many times it's a legit add-on or something that's 
the cause. 

FYI, you shouldn't have posted your HijackThis log here, since nobody requested it. 
Since it wasn't very long, I skimmed through it. Your log is clean. You shouldn't 
try to fix things when you don't know what they're related to...Here's info. on that 
unknown Winsock entry, it's legit. 

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/startups/nwprovau.dll-13129.html

I would fix these items though. You can always restore the backup HJT creates. 

O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [CTFMON.EXE] D:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
O4 - Global Startup: Microsoft Office.lnk = D:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\OSA.EXE



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