Oh, Dave, don't look up stuff on Photo Exposion! I deleted it from my machine! I never use it, anyway. Yes, Newton Knows was one of the files that Spy Doctor found in "Disk Scan." I cleaned it twice. It should be gone now that I deleted Photo Explosion. The "Virtumundo" sounds sorta familiar but I think it was "Advirtum" or something like that.

All the scanner if finding now are cookies, but those damned RUNDLL boxes keep popping up! The only thing left to do now, that I haven't done is to DL MyWebSearch (IE or MSN) again and then delete it from the control panel rather than with the Spy Doctor. In fact, "MyWebSearch" was very suspicious to me when it downloaded! That's exactly when "My MSN" (IE?) page changed. I get updates from Windows through IE and I'm sure that one wasn't legitimate! The only thing I can think of that caused all these problems is having dl'd Smilie Central and maybe even MSN Messenger.

Before you go do any more work on this and go searching the internet, let me do what you said using Start/Run and see what happens. Then, if MSN has answered me, I'll try dl'ing MyWebSearch and delete the whole damned thing, not just the adware in it.

When we went out shopping earlier in the day, I left the computer on and when we got back, about 5 hrs later, there weren't nearly as many error boxes as there has been. Maybe "my fire" is partially contained. Ya think?

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{Dave}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} Thank you so much for using up so much time and energy when you have so much to do for yourself! I posted on your Depression thread and told you to forget it. I might have known you wouldn't, you sweet thing!

Thanks again, luv!




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