Mike Marlow wrote:

Argh! The evidence is becoming overwhelming. I may not be able to escape
reloading it. All of my machines run 2000 and as easy as it would be to do,
can you believe I've not gone to the other machines to see if they act the
same way? Lazy is hard at work here.

Before reinstalling the OS try running one of the spyware removal tools such as
Lavasoft's "AdAware" ( http://www.lavasoft.com/ ) or Spybot's "Search & Destroy"
( http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html ). I've recommended the software to many
of my customers having problems similar to yours and they solved the problem I
run both of them weekly on my home machines.

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Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA
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