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I've allowed and disallowed PCME. No difference.

The situation is that my problem has recurred (before I tried allowing or disallowing PCME). So once again altavista is out of reach.

I configured Norton to alert me when an UNKNOWN program is trying to use another to launch.
I get mucho alerts. I generally disallow each by blocking it once. Cos I want to see how often they keep recurring.

Shouldn't Norton be able to recognize EVERYTHING that should be on my laptop? Is this confirmation that there is something evil lurking somewhere?
But then, it doesn;t make sense to me cos I AltaVista is still not availbe to me and this thing or things (they could be all legal) are still trying to launch.
Maybe we are looking in the wrong direction?

What else could we try? Is there something we shoud try again?