oh its cool web search, sorry about my inattention, you need c d shredder or hi jack this, same author. realize the people putting out c w s are constantly modifying it to keep the young author of c w shredder onhis toes, he is only a colledge student with other responsabilities. so sometimes his program even fails. so your first step should be to update c w shredder to most recent version. if that fails, and it may because one version of c w s is design to prevent the update download the newest version somewhere. their is also a tool on his site to help prevent apts from hi jacking your system in the first place, not tried it my self though. http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/ bill -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx