Sounds like you have a root kit malware installed. It will work even in Safe Mode, unfortunately.
Check out this youtube for instructions on how to remove a RootKit from your Windows 7
It has instructions from Kaspersky's and links you to a remover. I hope this helps.
What he (Swordmaker) said. Yep.
Thanks, I will give that a try tonight.
Today I turned on the computer and it of course was happening again but I had looked up some of the things running that I did not recognize from being on the list in the past few weeks. One of them was WUDFHOST which is supposed to be running but not supposed to show on the task manager.
I turned it off for now and it seems to be at least part of the problem. Running some scans and then will see after I restart. Been on for over 4 hours without a problem since I made the changes. Still not connected to internet.
I do think the problem is bigger so I won’t stop looking until I am positive it is clean.
Now I am also making sure this XP netbook is up to date on the scanners and such.
I always used to be very proactive making sure everything was updated and ran at least once every week, but I have really let some things go too long for the past year.