when i had this trouble i installed netscape browser and it was a lot quicker a worked perfect you could do this to see if the problem is just with IE and start from there

But won't explorer leave a bunch of trip wires and little programs to screw up any other programs that come along? my friend tried to switch from aol to freeserve and got a real kick in the teeth for it.

haha aol is like a virus itself it takes over your cpu try netscape you got nothing to lose if you dont get anywhere just uninstall it i know a few guys who run several browsers at once not sure why but they do worth a go

First please get Spybot S&D to clear out most of the spyware.

Short tutorial and download link here:
http://tomcoyote.org/SPYBOT/

Fix everything SpybotSD labels in red.

Then after reboot:
Download 'Hijack This!'. http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/
Unzip to a permanent folder, doubleclick HijackThis.exe, and hit "Scan".

When the scan is finished, the "Scan" button will change into a "Save Log" button.
Press that, save the log, load it in Notepad, and copy its contents here. Most of what it

lists will be harmless or even essential, don't fix anything yet.
then post the log here

Hmmm. can't post. bear with me!

But that worked! ok, i try to copy/paste the hijackthis scan into the reply and i get a "read error" and url can't be found screen. i'm pretty sure it's ok tho, i got a friend "in the know" to check it out. i'm gonna go ahead with netscape.

I have internet explorer 7... i think... but i have have several problems, but with links not working properly... i tried everything that yall said and nothing has worked. and i'm not sure if its because yall were talking about internet explorer 6 but i'm going to see if i havent downloaded internet explorer yet. o and the links dont work if when i move the curser over them and where it usually says "done" the first words are Javascript... and my java is up to date so i dont know wht the problem is.