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First off, I have to admit I am totally illiterate when it comes to computing (except writing my articles, emailing them to the publisher, and surfing the net, mostly FR).

I have McAfee antivirus software, don’t even know what version. About 1 1/2 years ago I had a problem with downloading a spyware, and a freeper (a dear friend) suggested Spybot Search and Destroy. I have depended on that since, and have had no problems.

I am now on my laptop, at my Mom’s (she is elderly and sick) and last night I was trying to write a column, surfing a few websites (keywords about wildlife, animals in a certain state, for article ideas), and suddenly I had all these popups telling me I had a virus. Since I had that experience before, I knew better than to hit any button loading this *** up. I hit NO, or the X, to no avail, I still ended up with an icon on my desktop that I now know is that rapid antivirus.

I had to leave today (attended TWO Tea parties in small towns). I want to write a (promised) report of these, as well as a column that is NOW overdue, but all day I can’t even open Firefox or IE.

I am on here now, so apparently I have somehow managed to resolve some of these issues, but I need to get this danged virus off. I don’t want to even think about paying for anything right now, if necessary I will later.

Thank you all for your advice. I’ll probably be up all night trying to download what you suggest and try to resolve this.

Crazy **. I don’t undertand it. I spent the past 15 years or so using MACs on my job (when I worked fulltime) and for companies that had experts to take care of all this for us. Since I have decided to work at home, and use a PC, it has been a nightmare mostly. I think I will go back to being a MAC user!!!