In a message dated 5/18/2006 3:04:11 PM Pacific Standard Time, JYoung6180@aol.com writes: > It only started when I updated the spyware--I tend to think the spyware > program is designed to continually try to connect to AOL so it can be aware > of > any updates...which is fine...within reason. That sounds reasonable to me, although I am definitely no expert!! I had a similar problem, although not with AOL. Every time I put a CD in the drive my Kodak picture program would start. I finally uninstalled the Kodak program, then reinstalled it - making sure that no other program was running at the time. That fixed the problem. Barbara