Thanks to jeff dougherty, bill green, and others who replied to my request for help. last week I had to change modem because of hardware issues with old modem, the other problem I had was the machine would start running slowly, sometimes lock up. I defragged, did system updates, and eliminated everything I could, I noticed that task manager(windows xp) has a real time graphic representation of cpu usage,which showed spikes of 100% down to 10% back to 100, just like a series of spikes, this was apparently the 9 piecies of spyware that spybot found, I also updated mcafee and it found a worm that just gotten in, system is now working fine, have a good night. ***************************************************************************** Classifieds! Buy or Sell! http://sell.tech-assist.org The Tech Address Book: http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/contact.htm Add a Repair Tip Here, or Change/Remove your Email Address: http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/main.htm Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Lost your Login Info?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/