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