Hello everyone, I am new to this site and very appreciative of any assistance you can give. I started out by receiving the "Google Hijack" where any google searches would redirect to advertisements or porn sites. I didn't have time to work on that so i just started using Ask.com until i had time to research. Now my problem is that I have programs that will not open. When i click on the icon I get the hourglass and then a couple seconds later it disappears. When I go to the Windows Task Manager i see the exe running in the processes but no program. This is happening with DVDFab and when I try to use my company's VPN through internet. I a using Wondows XP. I also use Symantec anitvirus and update it regularly. I have tried running full scans from Symantech and Spybot but neither find any issues (not even the Google Hijack). Any ideas? Thanks in advance.