umm thats pretty much what i did... after you helped me i uninstalled norton and installed antivir and then i also installed zonealarm. I havent had any more reports of random viruses on my machine and when i read up on the net about it it said it was a windows 95/98 specific virus so perhaps i have nothing to worry about? When i run ad aware and spybot the only things they found were cookies in firefox that might be infected so i just deleted them