Thank you for the help, I really appreciate it.
Everytime I run mIRC it creates the mirc.ini file which is then found to be trojan infected by the a/v program.
After a fresh delete of the mirc.ini file, mIRC won't create that high CPU hog while IE7 is running and browsing.
I hope it's ok to post the content of the mirc.ini file, hopefully someone can see if there is something that shouldn't be there - From a site that describes the IRC.cloner trojan, they list the whole file "mirc.ini" as a possible reason...
[dirs]
logdir=logs\
waves=sounds\
midis=sounds\
mp3s=sounds\
wmas=sounds\
oggs=sounds\
[options]
n0=0,0,0,1,0,0,300,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,4096,0,1,0,0,0,1,1,0,50,1,0,0,1,0
n1=5,100,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,1,1,1,0,5,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,10
n2=0,1,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,60,120,0,0,1,0,0,1,1,0,120,20,10,0,1,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0
n3=5000,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,1,0,1,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,1,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,3,180,0,0,0,0
n4=1,0,1,0,0,3,9999,0,0,1,1,0,1024,1,1,99,60,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,1,5000,1,5,0,0,3,0,1,1,0,0,1
n5=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,300,30,10,0,1,29,0,0,1,8192,1,0,0,115,0,1,0,0
n6=0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,100,1,1,0,0,1,0,0,4,1,0,1,0,0
n7=1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,1,0,0,1,70,0,3,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,1
n8=1,2,0,168,1,1,1,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0
[about]
version=6.21
[ident]
active=yes
userid=Cristanu
system=UNIX
port=113
[socks]
enabled=no
port=1080
method=4
dccs=no
useip=yes
[language]
sjis=0
multibyte=0
mbed=0
utf=1
linking=1
[clicks]
status=/lusers
query=/whois $$1
channel=/channel
nicklist=/query $$1
notify=/whois $$1
message=/whois $$1
[dde]
ServerStatus=on
ServiceName=mIRC
CheckName=off
[marker]
show=off
size=3
colour=4
method=1
[text]
defport=6667
commandchar=/
linesep=-
timestamp=[HH:nn]
logstamp=[HH:nn]
accept=*.jpg,*.gif,*.png,*.bmp,*.txt,*.log,*.wav,*.mid,*.mp3,*.wma,*.ogg,*.zip
ignore=*.exe,*.com,*.bat,*.dll,*.ini,*.mrc,*.vbs,*.js,*.pif,*.scr,*.lnk,*.pl,*.shs,*.htm,*.html,*.wmf
theme=mIRC Classic
network=Undernet
[warn]
dcc=on
fserve=on
[dccserver]
n0=0,59,0,0,0,0
[agent]
enable=0,0,0
char=merlin.acs
lang=0x0409
options=1,1,1,100,0
speech=150,60,100,1,180,10,50,1,1,1,0,50,1
channel=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1
private=1,1,1,1
other=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0
pos=20,20
[mirc]
user=Cristanu
nick=Cristanu
host=Random serverSERVER:irc.undernet.com:6669GROUP:Undernet
email=Cristanu@nospam.com
[files]
servers=servers.ini
finger=finger.txt
urls=urls.ini
addrbk=addrbk.ini
[styles]
thin=1
font=1
color=default
size=2
buttons=0
[windows]
main=160,960,71,852,0,1,0
wchannel=87,791,159,555,0,1,0
wlist=-1,791,-1,555,0,1,0
[pfiles]
n0=popups.ini
n1=popups.ini
n2=popups.ini
n3=popups.ini
n4=popups.ini
[ports]
dcc=1
other=0
random=off
bind=off
[ssl]
show=1
[waves]
connect=No Sound
[dragdrop]
n0=*.wav:/sound $1 $2-
n1=*.*:/dcc send $1 $2-
s0=*.*:/dcc send $1 $2-
[extensions]
n0=defaultEXTDIR:download\
n1=*.wav,*.mid,*.mp3,*.wma,*.oggEXTDIR:sounds\
[channelslist]
last=Financialchat.txt
[colors]
n0=mIRC Classic,0,6,4,5,2,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,5,7,6,1,3,2,3,5,1,0,1,0,1,15,6,0
n1=mIRC Modern,0,6,4,7,2,3,4,3,3,3,3,1,5,2,6,1,14,2,3,5,1,0,1,0,1,14,5,0
n2=Monochrome State,1,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,15,1,15,1,15,15,15,14,1,15
n3=Placid Hues,0,2,4,7,2,3,3,3,3,15,3,1,5,7,6,1,3,2,3,5,1,0,1,0,1,15,6,0
n4=Rainbow Sky,0,7,4,5,1,1,3,3,8,13,3,14,2,7,13,5,3,8,3,4,14,0,5,0,3,14,10,0
[palettes]
n0=16777215,0,8323072,37632,255,127,10223772,32764,65535,64512,9671424,16776960,16515072,16711935,8355711,13816530
n1=16777215,0,11010048,3299627,240,4737160,8388720,26832,1632504,57344,94740,16776960,16515072,16711935,8355711,13816530
n2=16777215,0,8323072,37632,255,127,10223772,32764,65535,64512,9671424,16776960,16515072,16711935,8355711,13816530
n3=15658734,0,12140,1508038,255,10964547,6579262,33023,65535,4227072,9474048,9920537,16711680,16711935,6579300,8553090
n4=16777215,3618615,12087408,16744448,255,32764,65535,43008,9671424,16776960,16515072,16711935,8355711,16711808,8355711,13816530
[afiles]
n0=aliases.ini
[rfiles]
n0=remote.ini
n1=remote.ini