Kim

I sent you an email with the programs

Ad_aware
Spybot Search and Destroy
hijackthis
pandasoftware free internet virus scanner

which I used to remove the pest from my brother's comnputer and they are all free and can be downloaded from the net.

Tim

PS: If anyone actually identifies the precise pest I'd love to know. My brother had too many on his computer for me to isolate which one was the culprit for this problem