Hi HG!

I've searched google with no avail so I thought I might ask in here! I found several websites saying different things, but none of them seem to be credible websites.

I've recently purchased a new hard drive to replace my C Drive. Instead of backing everything up from my old C Drive, installing the newly purchased drive and then restoring everything, I simply put the old C drive the secondary position, and the new drive in the primary position. This way I can install a fresh copy of Windows and still move all of the old files over as I please.

I've now installed windows on the new hard drive and have been reinstalling all of my software moving pictures over etc. However, I've noticed after the last two reboots of the computer that wintask.exe was a running processin the background. It seems to gun everything up; using lots of cpu power, lot allowing me to access websites etc. Is this an actual windows file? Or is it malware? It is located at C:\Windows\wintask.exe and I am able to disable it's startup in the system configuration utility (found via start>run>msconfig)

I fear my computer may already be infected as when I visited the hosts file I found it had been edited sending microsoft.com, symantec.com antivirus.symantec.com and many others pointing to the localhost ip of 127.0.0.1

Thanks for any help! :)
Colin Krieg