I've done just about everything I can think of twice now.[IMG] Ihate posting you these HJT logs but they don't seem to be much good anyhow. anyway here's some notes I took whilst doing the lastest tries...

In safe mode the homepage does not reset to about:blank. Having said that there's no net connection.

CCleaner cleaned all addresses from the History includin this one which I never visited (as far as I know):
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/ads? client=cu-pub-74780934
(there may have been more digits at the end but I couldn't get the window big enough. Anyway I went to the address (leaving off everything after pagead/) and i got the message "nothing to see here"... Bit scoobydoo, eh?

After completing all scan/removes in safe mode I went to check Internet Propertiesand the Home page was "http://hsremove.com/done.htm". After changing it to daniweb I rebooted and we're back to about:Blank again!!!

While in services.msc, I found NT LM Security Support Provider (NtLmSsp) was stopped. Has this got anything to do with it or am I getting paranoid as well as appoplectically desparate?

Excuse me while I go off and cry for a while

Go raibh maith agat agus slan go foile!