Hi again 129260 and I'm sorry I'm confusing you, I know it's my lack of knowledge of terminology and other tech things, and I'm not offended by your kind interest in helping, on the contrary I'm very grateful!
I didn't mean to say I had a spybotsd icon in my control panel - I meant it's listed there, plus 2 icons in the desktop. I deleted all 3 of them!there should not be a icon in the control panel...spybot does not do that....weird....whats the name of the icon in control panel?
SP3 updating is waiting for me in my taskbar, but it says to save everything first, so I'll finish fixing this matter before, and then I'll save everything and update it. As to the IE7 I know many people having problems with it and I dont' need MORE puter problems. I'm ok with IE6.Also why are out of date? You do not have service pack 3 for xp....or internet explorer 7....have you gone to Microsoft update recently? service pack 3 has been out for awhile now.... See here: www.update.microsoft.com Install all updates available.
I could, but doubt it since I'm very careful scanning frequently both spybotsd and ad-aware, along with deleting all temp files and other maintenance.Also are you sure you are not infected? You might need to visit the malware removal forums, as your computer seems to be acting very weird. Unless i am just not understanding what you are explaining correctly. We can look into this later if you keep having difficulties.
I did remove spybotsd from the control panel, but, I may not have restarted before reinstalling. I will do it again, and make sure to restart before reinstalling, as well as deleting the installer file after completing the installation, which I never knew I had to do.Can you go to control panel-add/remove programs and remove spybot? Then restart the computer and download and install spybot from the link i provided earlier? After installing, simply delete the installer file after the installation is completed. Then you will see a icon called spybot search and destroy. Open that and that will launch the spybot program.
While I'm not good with computer tech, I did install several programs before but never deleted the installer, so I shall certainly do this from now on.Have you ever installed a program before, or are you completely new to this? Installing another program is just like installing spybot.
I'll follow the steps you gave me now and will try it, this time, the right way. Thanks a lot again! Adela
Also hello and thanks to drragostea I'm so awfully sorry you had to re-read the thread from the start! I think the answers above apply to your questions. As to this: "Also, are you attempting to remove all of Spybot's files and start anew?", yes, I was trying to delete the entire spybotsd and start from scratch which I did, but possibly it didn't work since I didn't know I had to delete the icon after installed and also restart before reinstalling.
Again, thank you both a lot! I feel I'm now much better equipped to try it again and will report the good news. Adela