I've lost track of my inquiry and this thread, because my 32 year old Down's Syndrome son has been in the ICU, because of pneumonia AND SEPSIS, for four weeks. I've been, to put it mildly, otherwise engaged. He now appears out of the woods, or almost so. I think they are moving him to a normal hospital room tomorrow.

Some posters above got the wrong handle on my problem. Perhaps one out of ten times I execute a URL through the input window at the top of my screen, I get what at least purports to be be the RealPlayer site. I don't run anything from there, but get out immediately. Then running the originally desired URL gets me that URL.

RUSS, I have both Ad-Aware SE Personal and Spybot. I run Ad-Aware regularly, maybe every other day (when not distracted, as above) or at least twice a week. I don't run Spybot very often, because it never seems to catch anything that Ad-Aware doesn't, but Ad-Aware catches a lot more. Ad-Aware is up to date, though Spybot isn't because I so seldom use it.

I have an up-to-date version of Norton Internet Security, with firewall active. I haven't run a complete system check with Norton AV for a while, howevever. I'll do that tonight, as I go to bed.

I think I'm going to remove RealPlayer, and run Registry Mechanic, just in case there's something buried there by RealPlayer.

Dave Oesterreich