Thanks for the replies. I found out that the little file i was worried about is actually part of the TrendMicro anti virus app. But, it seems the problems i was having have gone away. I ran wireshark for a bit and saw that the server was trying to get to a website. After doing some research i found out that it was a trojan and how to get rid of it. The trojan was a process called w2symtec.exe. So, all is well.