Run once and MSconfig does not?

Question

Lucky for me a program that I downloaded "Instant Reg Scanner"

that would always run at start up had an uninstall option in its folder.
But, before I found that out I did the following with no good results.

I ran regedit
It was not in the registry services .

I removed all Run and Run once keys that had that program's name.

There were only two values.

In Msconfig I removed the program from the start up menu

But, after I restarted my XP computer

not only did this annoying program start again.

It was back in Msconfig and the two values were back in the

the run and run once hives. of the registry

How can this happen?
I thought that run ,run once and services are the only places in

the registry where a program can be made to run at startup.

Thank you

Are There more ways to automatically start programs ??

Answer 1

Spyware Trojans can do this.

wdw