Hey Nihil, you're way above my head. I don't know what spyware I've got but someone in Germany stole a domain from me pretty much as I was paying for it. Yahoo says that the only way that can happen is if someone knows what I'm doing, it was an odd name. I've had tons of runtime errors for the past month (R6025) and very slow performance....course it's dial up so that's part of it, but much slower than usual, and wierd popup ads that seem to go along with some of my email content. So, as I said I've tried everything but what you're suggesting, can you get me started? Then I'll try fourdc's advice. Hey, could Yahoo be causing this? This all seemed to start within about a month of installing it......????