These programs are quite territorial--many of the music and other programs want to make themselves default and ask any time you activate them.

DOS is an option, and I used to use it quite a lot, so I think it would come back to me. It was easy enough to go online and find DOS commands.

I hadn't thought of the control/alt/delete, but I would have gotten there eventually if AdAware hadn't dumped it for me.

I tell my kids "say no!" to any time it asks and come tell me. I have friends who are babies at computers, elderly folks, and I can see the need to sit down with them and encounter these things and show them what to do. I fear viruses are going to attack them soon if they haven't already. Time to call and ask, since they don't send email often. I ran AdAware at work on my computer there, and while it found obnoxious cookies, there were no applications to remove. We have texts and programs running to remove that stuff system-wide, though there have been notable failures also. Updates have to be done manually, and the IT folks go from computer to computer to do them. I would do it, but I am not an administrator so I have to wait for them to get there. It must be tedious for them to know there are those of us who would maintain our computers just fine, but they have to deal with the lowest common denominator, a group who don't know how and don't care to know how.

SRS