It all appears to be sorted...fingers crossed.

KD told me about ad-aware...which found and removed over 550 bugs.

Christina & Orange_Blossom told me how to get rid of mywebsearch coz ad-aware said it was bad but i couldn't get it to delete.

After all that...all was sweet except my comp was still freezing up every time my pc toolbar froze up. So i uninstalled it and that prob stopped. I've since re-installed it and ...grrrrr...it done it again but i found a way round it. I just had to disable the ticker on the pc toolbar coz that's what was freezing everything up. But it's ok so long as i keep the ticker disabled. I'm just wondering now if anybody else finds the ticker a problem?