Hijackthis is better than the basic msconfig for that, but anyway the virus was wiped, it's definitely the player. It doesn't always stop after 3 seconds, sometimes it's 7. The Jesus superstar sample AMV got to 11 seconds, which was a record. Disabling repeat stops the repeat of course, but that's not the problem.

If I don't fix this it doesn't really matter because the ChiPod plays the AMV files OK, but, I'd like to get hold of some different software to play AMVs on my PC.

If a program doesn't want to work, I just get another to do the same job... except this time I can't find another.