Having used the down time to good(?) purpose, I can report that a new version (SE 1.06) of Ad-Aware is out, and can be downloaded now. Go to Lavasoft.com and click on downloads, or just click "check for updates" in your current version.

Running the old (slightly obsolete) ver 5.25 on her machine found only 3 cookies, but the new version reported 239 critical objects and about a dozen suspect registry keys, so it's aparently much more thorough. All the suspect reg items had been "disabled" by Norton, so they weren't really a threat, but the cleanup probably was a good thing. The last previous (SE 1.05) version on my machine found 3 cookies, and the new version added one more - not much of a change. (I should get out and about more?)

Spybot S&D signature files have also apparently been updated quite recently, so checking in there would be something to do while Max gets things put together.

John