My daughter's XP system with all the Windows updates as well as updates and having run both Spybot and AdAware and it still has has some kind of a problem. Firefox is the default browser but IE is opening up spontansously with web pages full of ads from multiple http://ad.c???????.com/ etc. web sites. I cannot figure out what is bringing them up nor how to prevent them. Using msconfig I removed everything from Start that looked suspicious but nothing had any good effect. I thought I recalled back some time ago that someone on PCHLEPERS had something similar. I do not recall if there was a solution to the problem. Appreciate any suggestions. Cy -- -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.