You would appear to have had something related to the Brilliant Digital
crapware at some stage, as it seems to have hijacked your ASCII file
associations.

Get Spybot S&D: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/ and Lavasoft
Ad-aware: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/. Update then run
both, to (hopefully) get rid of any remnants or still-running spyware
modules.

Meantime r-click the log then either *Open With* or *Properties* then *Opens
With*, and choose *Notepad*. Put a check in *Always use this program to
open.......etc etc*. Post back if that doesn't work.

Shane

"warsh79" wrote:

Info on your Spyware Pest.
<http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/BDE.html>

Help with Hijackware!

Download and run Lavasoft's Ad-aware and SpyBot Search & Destroy.
Ad-aware here: http://www.lavasoftusa.com 
SpyBot here: http://www.safer-networking.org 

Install (both) applications since one catches what the other doesn't.
Update both *immediately* upon installation as they are not updated,
"out of the box".
Delete whatever Ad-aware finds in the scan results, you will be prompted.
Remove all the items found in the SpyBot scan results marked "red", the remainder
are minor items that can be ignored until you are more familiar with the program.

Additional reading;
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/spywarewhat.mspx
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.php
So how did I get infected in the first place?
http://boards.cexx.org/viewtopic.php?t=957

Silj

You can read a bit about it here:
http://www.scanspyware.net/info/BrilliantDigital-BDE.htm
or:
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/library/b3dprojector/index.phtml

...Alan