well i appreciate all of the help.....new develpment.......the "hacker" had installed a user file in my hardrive....all files contained were dat files. they had also turned on my guest account password free......i know this was no one close to me cause no one......and i mean no one has touched my pc all weekend besides myself........i am now usiong both zone alarm and black ice as my firewalls, and i have spybot and super pest patrol (all updated versions) and did find one trojan. i must say all of this is extremely fascinating and i am enjoying the experience(in a way). as for turning off my dsl.....according to the carrier it is supposed to have a dynamic ip and according to them is supposed to continuosly change.....will it keep repeating the same ip addresses though? so far (well since sat. night) someone....or someones....have been blocked from entering into my pc 138 times.....and yes they keep trying.....hopefully my dual firewalls are what are keeping them out. i again checked with both windows and mcaffee for updates, neither had any for me.....mcaffee updates weekly anyway. hopefully have this prob taken care of........if not, i guess i will need to learn more.