dreamer, thanks for the help I looked in Internet options and sure enough the settings have changed, been going thru a lot of things tonight and have found a lot of things that are different. I do have firefox and use it 99% of the time, I have never had a problem with it until now, and don't really think it IS the problem. I really do not understand what happened to my computer things are gone moved into different folders ect. before anyone says anything i have nortons 360,I also have several spam filters, several anti spy programs, all of which i update and run regularly, I also have a program called system mechanic that I run that keeps the system optimized, and windows is updated automatically. Oh and almost forgot registry patrol to keep the registry cleaned up. I though that I had this thing bullit proof but i guess I was mistaken, anyone have any suggestions on how to protect this thing any better??