Also, I am wondering about what all I am doing for protection & what is the difference of each program.
Spybot S&D
MBA-M
Antivir
Ad-Aware
CCleaner
AFT-Cleaner
HijackThis
I'm not clear on the differences of each of these, & when I should use them & how often.
Can you point me to the answer or provide some explanation?
Happy to do that shortly but one more thing you MUST to is update your java. Yours is WAY, WAY out of date. Current version is 6 update 11. Having out of date java can also raise security issues so it should be kept up to date.
You need to go
HERE Download the Offline Install and save it to your desktop but DON'T install yet.
Once you have downloaded then go to Start, Control Panel, Add/Remove and Uninstall ALL versions of java you find there.
Once all have been uninstalled then go back to the desktop and with all browsers closed, double click the java install to install the newest version. Once the new version is installed then go back to that download page and on the right side you will see Verify Now. Click that to verify that the installation was successful.
Back shortly with explanation of the security programs noted and what to do with them.
Judy