Hi george , No don't have spybot not sure if it will work with jfw 4.5.1? use Add aware, Reg scrub, spyblaster and even tried restoring the pc to an earlier time with no luck. Think perhaps something is messing around with my internet explorer but I just can't figure out what. is there a way of restoring the defaults to IE or would that have been done at the time of system restore? Ah well! the joys of computing! I'm off to enjoy an extra hour in bed, thanks for your time and suggestions! Best wishes Alistair ----- Original Message ----- From: George Bell To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 12:25 AM Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Internet Explorer behaving strangely Looks like the Hosts file is O.K. However, clearly something is fooling the system into directing you to incorrect web pages. Do you have Spybot Search & Destroy? I've found that to be about the best of the Spyware software about. George. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of allykelly Sent: 29 October 2005 23:52 To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Internet Explorer behaving strangely Hi george There are 4 files in the : etc folder: host file which looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost 2.protocol file 3. Services 4 lmhosts file which looks like this: