Oops- caperjack beat me to it... :p

lol!! Have you ever heard of a program called Security Booster? That was one thing that my uncle bought to install on his computer...he thought it was legit because it had the McAfee symbol on it. But a lot of his problems didn't start until he installed that. It popped up while he was online one day, saying how he had spyware installed on him computer and such, and to download it for extra security or what not. I'm not sure exactly what it said, but along those lines anyway. He paid $70 for it...so he basically just threw $70 in the trash didn't he?

Spywareblaster and Spyguard in my signature ,FREE and great programs .Also read how i got infected in mysignature and you will see a link to IE-Spyad .also recomended and free .I use all 3 and spyware is Rare on my machine ,the last i got was from a free screensaver program 6mnts ago and that was before i install the 3 programs

I run SpywareBlaster on mine...I saw the link for Spywareguard here a few times and wondered if that would also be a good thing to have running too. I'll have to download that too. I'll have to recommend them to my uncle when he gets his computer back and going again. Thanks to all of you for being so patient with those of us who are kind of slow on picking up all of this stuff. It's gotten to the point where I come here just to read over threads and the responses you all give just to see what I can learn. Thanks a lot, and I know where to go when I need help!