This is fascinating reading. I'm not joking either!

I've seen problems like this in IE on PCs before and the only way to eliminate it was to purge your system and reload the operating system when the pop-ups started haunting your every move.

For a long time I was a die-hard PC lover and I thought nothing of dealing with this kind of stuff. For a time after I left the museum I was working for, I took a Job on Wall Street working for an Steamship agency in what was then called MIS - today people call that line of work IT. Anyhoo, for years and years afterwards, I would still get called from time to time by folks from that company to deal with some crazazy PC problem since I helped install all the original PCs back in 1987, I even used to volunatirly go back to help run the quarterly reports in one particularly troublesome department.

Anyway - I moved out to Los Angeles after selling a screnplay and got swallowed up by the film Industry where everyone uses Macs. I tried to resist the Mac heresy as long as possible. i even ported my own PC laptop to my various offices risking getting robbed at gunpoint in Koreatown. The guy trying to rob me asked me what model my "notebook" was and when he found out it was a PC - he let me keep it! LOL!

Then... I got married to a Mac lover and slowly, he infected me with his Mac ways. i've been using Macs exclsueively since 2004 and I don't miss the viruses, port attacks, Microsoft BS and so on.

Even so, allow me to sit on the sidlinesd and cheer Stilly on as he bravely hunts down the culprit of this evil. May he Draw & Quarter the guilty file when he finds it! You go SRS!