unhooking Outlook from login

[Asp]

My wife's office PC (XP SP3) used to present the number of new mail messages under the user name on the login screen.

A few days it got infected with a virus, I managed to clean it off, and thought it was repaired. All seemed well for a day, but this morning after booting and selecting the user, it displays the desktop background, but no icons or taskbar, and a single box saying something about "Microsoft Outlook Express 6" and the mouse cursor is an hourglass. Waiting literally hours nothing has advanced.

I can't be more specific about the message, since it's in Chinese, which my wife speaks, but can't understand the technical terms well enough to translate.

However, I CAN boot into safe mode with networking, and in that can use Outlook Express to read and send mail, apparently normally.

The problem seems to be whatever Outlook is doing on login.

How is Outlook hooked in to the login, and how can I unhook it?

Edited January 22, 2010 by Asp

[MrJinje]

The problem seems to be whatever Outlook is doing on login.

How is Outlook hooked in to the login, and how can I unhook it?

Run HijackThis. Attach log. (Do not paste as text)

http://free.antivirus.com/hijackthis/