hi Paul didnt manage to uninstall Avast i tried by going in from the desktop menue but no luck is there a way to stop avast from running and then maybe it would uninstall? regards Frank Kelly -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 567 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message