Just wanted to thank you all for all your help
My brain turned to mush, so I had my hubby pick up with all your advice.
Looks like he may have fixed it .. cross your fingers
I wish I could explain as to what he did .. but all this computer speak is greek to me.
Maybe someone can put it into english
Any how .. he took all you advice and suggestions .. plus he also had to seek out a file/folder/whatever called TV Media/TVM.Exe
he found 3 that were causing problems
TVMSYS.EXE
TVM_BS.EXE
Yes-TVM.EXE
He said he changed the .EXE to .OLD then did a reboot and then deleted them
I hope that made some sense .. Like I said - I have not a clue on what he said or did ... but it worked
Yeah!! These things are NASTY..
They do live on your drive under different names on your disk than they instantiate themselves in memory. Sneaky.
I have seen registry entries set as read only that cannot be deleted.
Malware is appropriate. I fear it will ruin the freedom of the web.