Frank

Got to say this gets the WOW factor when I arrived. Well done to all concerned behind the scenes.

A Merry Christmas to all on here and a big thank you for all your help.

Always used Nero in the past but in recent years it's become bloated beyond belief. I'm a great believer in less is more and now use the following free burners: The Official ImgBurn Website Ashampoo Burning Studio Free - Free software downloads and reviews - CNET Download.com

After my recent problem with malware and finding that others who visited a certain forum experienced the same problem when using IE but not those using Firefox I've just joined the darkside.:) Now to add-ons the only one I've tried so far is: EasyList Filter Subscriptions for Adblock Plus - rick752 Have to say I'm impressed, some of the sites I now visit are not recognizable as the same sites. Oh and I find firefox much quicker that IE too. All you IEr lovers please don't jump on newly converted Firefoxer;)

ActiveArmor is a hardware fiewall built into Nvidia chipset motherboards.

Avast Home anti virus. ActiveArmor firewall (set on high). SpywareGuard. Spywareblaster. Ad-aware (free version). Sbybot S&D. SuperAntiSpyware (free version). CCleaner (set on Gutmann 35 passes). Running on XP Pro.

All done (thank heavens for 20mb broadband:)) Google now appears back to its own corporate self. Did a few reboots just incase but all Okay. Thanks for your help, is there anything else I need to do? Regards Frank.

Thanks for the quick response Wolfeymole, will follow instructions and get back to you.

I search for something in google. I get the normal list of results, but then, when I click on the results, some of the time I get redirected to another completely unrelated search webpage. Have run Avast and found A003584.exe and removed to chest. Have run Superantispyware and found A0035972.exe and quarantined. Also Spybot found IRC.crt prunnet and Wim32.Small.buy which have also been quarantined. The problem seems to have started with a pop up for virusremover2008 which I did not open but closed using Alt-F4. Sorry about the post length but trying to give as much info as possible for you. Hope you can help Regards Frank.

Thanks for that. Perhaps, more of a slightly greying surfer then.:)

Just a quick hello from a silver surfer.:) It's always good to find a Forum to help out with any PC problems.