thanks for your reply
i did a kaspersky scan soon after, as i thought mcafee might have been corrupted and it came up clean . i also ran windows live one care and counterspy v2 and they found nothing out of the ordinary. my hijack this log was posted on dell's forum and i got no reply but i guess if there was anything wrong, i would have.. A recent mvt scan showed xml files missing. i downloaded the mcpr tool cleaned up the temp files etc and then re-installed mcafee from my account.
(it was originally on the pc from dell). amongst the processes being executed when mcafee was cleaning/downloading/installing were 015793~1.exe , 000a07a0.exe and 026515~1.exe and all seemed attributed to various points of install etc.
im starting to wonder if there was a major update of my products and the original process i stopped was part of the install,(the update symbol was showing in the taskbar), that might explain why files were missing. when i re-installed mcafee a lot of the items i had as alert and log were log only or disabled . could these be the default settings? Everything seems fine at the moment, i think maybe after the recent trojan attacks i became too paranoid and as a result stopped a perfectly good update. i've only had the pc 12 months and i guess i'm learning all the time and have to learn to trust things that are there to help me.
thanks for your input so far , it is appreciated.