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Clara, thanks for the link but I bugged out at the technicalities and just uninstalled AVG 6.0 freeware anti-virus and then went to their site and reloaded it.

Spybot had already killed everything but the klez worm and when AVG came back up, it pegged the worm pronto. I then did a complete check (15 minutes for a 6 gig hard drive (1.2 gig amd chip...I'm not crazy about that)as opposed to around 3 minutes for Spybot). AVG then whacked the klez worm upon completion of the test.

I then ran Spybot again and got the all clear.

I have both running now with updates and all that good stuff and with spybot due to kick in on every reboot plus instant notifications from AVG if anybody tries or does sneak in.

This computer is strictly for FR and fun but these little buggers are a pain. Thanks for all the help to you both....I'm a nube with this stuff obviously.

Do either of you think cable server are more prone to this than DSL/phone lines? I have none such obvious problems at work with a less powerful/antiquated giddy-up(win98/pentium II/1.4 gig hard drive.

I plan to do a spybot check at work on monday...we'll see.

I hope this stops things popping up here even when my browser is closed...for now.

Good Night.

I think that the only thing a cable hookup is more prone to is intrusions from Internet prowlers, so you must have a firewall. Is AVG a firewall as well? (I'm not familiar with it.) If not, do you have Zone Alarm (free version) or Sygate (free version) running on your computer?