I went to this url http://www.softwarepatch.com/utilities/msdosmouse.html after 10mins it still hadn't loaded so I shortened the adds to '-/utilities' and I had a monitor full of popups ! one remained on top and wouldn't be deleted. it said 'you are vulnerable to attack on port £$%^' I was forced to do a hard reboot, and then found that my av prog would not scan; the icon was greyedout and so was the drop down. an 'update' didn't fix it, but thank goodness, an uninstall and re-d/l and I was safe [relatively] and secure once more. thread followers beware. cheers Ted To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk