Can anyone help me? Yesterday, when I started my computer it hung up. Ctr/Alt/Del showed a FILE called vacation.exe was trying to launch, something I've never seen before. Without thinking, I went out and deleted vacation.exe.

Now, when I boot up (Windows ME) I receive an error message saying "windows cannot find 'vacation.exe". You may have typed the name incorrectly...." etc. If I click OK I can go on to RUN all my normal programs.

Can anyone tell me
a) how can I determine which application is having the error
b) how I can either restore the vacation file or delete the need for it?

I have tried to restore to a prior date, but had to undo that because it caused much bigger problems. Thinking the file was from Outlook EXPRESS I updated my Microsoft Explorer, hoping the update would bring the file with it. No luck.

Any suggestions from the experts out there? Thanks SO much!

A little knowledge is a very dangerous thing for me!!!!!!!!!!

It's probably trying to start from a registry entry.
Just download & run ccleaner, that should fix it.
If not, you can run Hijackthis but I don't think you will need to.I sincerely hope I am wrong here and I may well be but if you use virtually any P2P application without maximum protection and you have no idea what vacation.exe is or where it came from, it's probably the Win32.P2P-Worm.Alcan.x aka W32.Alcan.x aka W32.Alkra.x and it's pretty nasty!
It's a trojan dropper that drops various SPYWARE and adware applications, back doors, other trojans and RATs. The last infection by Alcan that I saw dropped in excess of 60 malware related files itself!

Carry out the procedures LISTED [highlight]in this post[/highlight]. Note down any and all infections discovered by the various recommended scans etc Keep a log of what they were and where they were and post a Hijackthis logfile here when done.