Hi Karolyn, Go to this site and download AdAware. This top rated, free for home use, program will clean out all the spyware/adware/scumware that has accumulated on your machine. Your machine will run better as well. http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/ A good feature of this program is that the authors update weekly so that the program is always able to remove the current spyware. The program is very easy to use and updating is done with 1 mouse click. Hope this solves your problem. Cheers, Larry Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia [email protected] Family & Genealogy Website: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~andersonfamily Researching: Anderson/Andersen, Beckett, Rondeau/Rondo, McPherson, McLeod Larry's Homepage: Http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~andersonfamily/larryhomepage.html ***** : BEWARE : THIS IS NoT A VIRUS : BE CAREFUl PLEASE : I had followed up on a search engine someone had recommended and : ended up getting a search engine with many suggestive adult materials : on it. It knocked out my home page, brought with it many popup ads : of adult material, put folders into my Favorites folder, and my : homepage was now that search engine. : : Everything I tried to do to knock it off failed. A popup ad came : from Internet Explorer to put the updates on to take care of this : problem and even then they continued. : : I just came from my computer store, and they said many people are : having the same problem and sometimes it works its way into the hard : drive, and only the computer store knows how to get rid of it for $50 : - $60. I may try a couple of other patches from Microsoft before I : give into that.