Exactly, Jeri. I'm looking at what is going on when the permission is asked and looking to see who is asking. It speeded up a lot to tell Earthlink NO to all of the nonsense it was trying to post.

In the past I've fooled with this, but got out of the habit when I installed some of the Symantec products. Last month I took out the Norton Internet Security, which contributed to this investigation of mine now. There is obviously a tradeoff. Do I want Norton slowing me down with their little annoying programs, or, upon evicting Norton, all of the ads slowing me down? Better the devil you know?

SRS