sometimes my task manages works overtime.
when my computer bogs down i look and there
are dozens of little green boxes (taskmanager
icons) on the bottom of the screen. if i click
on control/alt/delete, and see the programs that
are running, there are many many task manager
files open and presumably active. when i shut
them down one by one (usually at that point i
have not got use of the mouse so must do so manually)
things work somewhat normally if i close all but
one of them.

does this sound like any thing that is familiar to anyone
out there? is it indicative of a virus, trojan, worm or
other problem? my virus protection scans come up ok, but
when i run adaware or spybot it gets to a certain point,
then freezes, i suppose it is from finding some problem file

thanks for any insight or advice.

Laurel