Yup, Ekhart "a squared" did it! It found four suspect files - deleted - and my computer is running sweetly again. Thanks for all the help. Eric At 16/06/2004, you wrote: >Hi Eric > >Yup, i'm pretty famous for being a crazy googler, but in this case i >found most of the links in the second post by reading through the very >geeky and long thread on the Wilders Security page listed. > >Please don't be awed by the amount of info i sent or the time spent >collecting it. You probably won't have to do more than one or two of the >things in the first post: > >1) run "a squared" www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free >2) restart Windows in safe mode or safe mode with command prompt and run >Avast >3) run AVG www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php >4) http://tds.diamondcs.com.au/index.php?page=download > >And i really enjoy searching. I was already famous as a kid for liking >to help my father ...snip -------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.