Update on “joe maller.exe” – I opened the file in BBEdit to see if I could figure out what it was. Looks like porn advertising or something based on a list of embedded sites. The phrase “Fun Loving Criminal” appears several times. One funny thing I found was a path to SimCity3000: “C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 3000\Game\SC3.EXE” I’ve never played SimCity3000.
Maybe if I remember I’ll try opening it with Virtual PC, hopefully this will just go away.