AdAware is the greatest. They update its definitions almost every day, too! It's amazing. All this, and free free free. :D All hail Lavasoft!

I'm sold, just installed it, thanks.

God bless you! I just ran it...it found 327 files! 327!

Thanks for the tip.

Do yourself a favor and run both AdAware *and* Spybot - Search & Destroy. Spybot can be found here: http://www.safer-networking.org/

Spybot is good. i used it first, but it didn't get everything and Ad-aware zapped what Spybot missed. Using both together is probably the best protection.

i do have one question. When-U-Search changed my settings so that IE loads automatically whenever i boot. i don't like that. How do i change that back to normal?

Start-up settings in your control panel? You should be able to find all the programs that launch at startup there.

Re: Spybot--I use it, too, but it is updated so much less frequently than Ad-Aware. My sole gripe.

A program I recommend for having greater control over Windows in general (one easy stop to modify all sorts of things, including things like which programs launch at startup) is TuneUp Utilities, which I SWEAR by.

It's not free, though you can try it out for free--it is relatively cheap, though, for all the functionality it provides. It does a million excellent things I don't have space to list:

http://www.tune-up.com/

Excellent tip, Fox. i'll check it out.

Anni, I thought you knew. So, where'd you get that malware? Been cruising porn sites? hehehehe

Actually, Casca, i think i got it from an email sent to me by a Wilfred Owen fan down south.

; )

Dulce et decorum est... actually, I think it was Sassoon. Say do you have a copy of "The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston"? I have an extra.