Ken

I ran the SUPERAntiSpyware as suggested. It turned up quite a lot. Most were tracking cookies, but there were 4 registry items 2 of which were unknown...I had to restart the computer as you said, but unfortunately the computer just hung and would not restart. I had to pull the plug. When I restarted and went to retrive the log file there was nothing there. CA Antivirus was running in the background and during the scan also turned up 6 positives, not sure if they were related to the ongoing scan.

I'm running another SUPERAntiSpyware scan now (the last one took 2 hours) and if I can I'll post a log along with a HJT log....not sure if there was still something remaining that was causing the restart to "hang", but it did look as if the last scan got deep.

I'll post again as soon as this is done.

Mark