thanks tashi
From what I can tell I went to ca and ran a spyware check and it found one that I had removed with spybot but which was still there. Certainly you guys gave me the info needed to work out my computer issues. thanks for all of the help. Although I was able to fix the problems I still dont have a great knowledge of what happned or how I fixed it. Literally I clicked on the spywarebot webpage on google and that was it. I guess from now on I will stay away from pages that I dont know. Also I had used the immunize button on spybot before I had gone to the webpage and it didnt stop me from going to the page or from getting the spyware, or malware, i dont know which I had but thanks for giving me your time tashi...RC