I found quite a few help sites where people posted questions about "filost," but never came back to say whether it got fixed. Either the instructions they got disabled them completely, or I just found a cluster of rude people.

The only one that I found, with a superficial search, was at Computer Guy archive. Fairly detailed instructions, which the fellow with the problem said had "fixed" his machine.

Incidently, this is NOT JUST AN IE PROBLEM. I found complaints from people using a variety of browsers. This apparently is a toolbar hijack, but it is a program that you have to "let" install itself. It's intended to "fill your life with adventure by connecting you to random websites." It just doesn't work very well, apparently.

John