[Nolan83]

I'm running Windows XP SP2 on an Acer aspire 5000 notebook. My problem is that Windows Data Execution Prevention closes Windows Explorer at seemingly random intervals. I have run full system scans with Avast! (which I run on my system continuously) and with MicroTrend's Housecall.

Avast found a Trojan Horse, which it removed, and Microtrend found a few security holes in my XP settings. Other than that, the scan looked clean.

Now, I'm aware that I can disable DEP for explorer, but I'm a little uneasy about doing that, as I'm worried some malware is triggering th DEP. Can someone please take a look at my hijackthis log below and recommend a course of action for me (please don't tell me to do a system restore, I can't manage that right now).

The HiJackThis log pushes this post over the 1000 word size limit, so I will post it as a reply below

Thanks,

Nolan