OK Folks

I've downloaded and run the following to no avail. They found nothing expect Spybot keeps finding the 5 DSO Exploit thingies which I've read are no issue.
Adaware
Spybot
Swatit
CWShredder

I also unistalled and reinstalled Norton and run it.
It found nothing.

I've run HijackThis and cannot say that I see anything dangerous (not that I would know), anyhow I posted my logfile to you for advice.

No, I cannot access altavista from any site/direction/route, not even the last suggested possibility which was http://66.94.229.254


I appear to be able to access all other sites except AltaVista.

Time_Axe suggested that my ISP could have interfered with AltaVista's DNS entries. Though I do not quite understand what this means, I find that strange since I was originally able to access AltaVista using the very same ISP.

Tim_Axe sent me some stuff to type to "ping" altavista. I am not clear as to what I must type in. (DOES IT START FROM?) C:\Documents
(AND END AT?) C:\Documents and Settings\UserName>

Do I type in all the stuff in between? Could I just copy and paste the text into the black box that Tim_Axe says should appear when I am going to ping this thing? (and thus avoid mistakes?)

Just want you to know that it's really great to have the support even if I haven't solved the problem...yet. I almost threw the laptop through the window yesterday before subscribing to this forum.
Thanx!
Carla