Hi Pat, I hope the site is now working for you since you should read the posts on the problem but here is some core advice from the site: to get rid of it: go to http://spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip and scan your pc. In one of the outcomes you will find the sonic update manager. Mark this line to be "fixed" and you're problem is gone. If you go to that site it will trigger a download of hijackthis.zip A Ddos is a Distributed Denial of Service - a common and illegal effort to disrupt or close down a site. ===== "History is like so over!" Joan of Arcadia __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ To unsub or change your email settings: http://www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ http://www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk