Sorry for the repeat OT.Looking for a little more guidance here.
So i downloaded Ad Aware and it found a bunch of stuff which i quarintined. I then downloaded Spybot,it found a bunch more but quits 1/2 way through the removal part. Friday my shortcut to my internet connection would not work,so i had to make a new one(yup i know how to do that.lol) and when i brought up my IE 6 i had lost all my history and popups came in faster than i could close them. Its a nightmare i have never had to go through before on this computer. I checked and my conection is armed for MS firewall,but still getting through. Loaded Googles popup tool,but it does not stop them just puts them in the bottom tool bar,but it really slows the connections down,which i'm sure you all know. I'm on XP home,clone PC, still running original SP but have ordered the SP 2 from MS. Anything i should be adding for security here. I have run virus scan(Norton)and am up to date. I have DLed several of the newer removal tools and nothing has been found. I'm going nuts here. Any help is app. Dave