I was sending a PM to John Hardly this morning (an embarrassing photo of my long-suffering pit bull in a jersey dog jacket in our very cold weather last month) and all of a sudden a file started downloading and opening in Adobe Acrobat. I told it not to, and kept refusing the file, but it still managed to get in and reset several values and try to write to the registry. I set up Spybot to search it out and refused to follow the bait as it tried to tell me that Windows wanted me to do this. The misspellings in the instructions of the dialog box were a clue, along with my not initiating it. I have the scan running now in the Microsoft antivirus program that didn't notice this thing. Thank goodness for Bill D's Winpatrol and for Spybot. But I am going to do a system restore and I may put AVG back in. It doesn't play nicely with IE, but it does a better job of noticing this stuff.

So, I'm waiting on that and the work I have to finish on that computer. I might as well work on rewiring the last two phone lines, and be ready to switch to the cable company for my phone service for a while.

SRS