Hi there
First posting, apologies for whatever I'm bound to do as a newbie....

A friend of mine sez...he was offline for about 3 months, got back on a month ago and started weeding out accumulated e-mails. He had the preview window open on his mail application and thinks that might be the way the problem got into his computer.

He has some kind of a redirector, or hijacker, or whatyoumaycallit. Characteristics are that Norton can't scan the computer, and Adaware actually activates the thing. What it does is take him to a casino site. Apparently the problem is so pervasive he cannot use the computer. He is talking about fixing the problem "when I can take a day at it."

SURELY it can't be that opaque!

I looked at the Symantec site briefly, but this is not apparently one of the most recent afflictions, or else that is not the right place to be looking. I'm supposing if it can be identified, there is a fix for it.

Anyone know what this is, and what to do about it?

TIA
Dennis