Ted MacNEIL wrote: >PS: it was only my desk-top short-cuts to specific web sites. NOT the 'main' >ICON on my desk-top.
What are the properties of those short-cuts? Next time, turn off your automatic updates and turn ON any notifications of installation attempts. Look carefully at your 'add-ons' in Internet Explorer 7/8/9/10 and disable all of them. Turn off all 'pop-ups', 'cookies' and all those annoying nasties. Activate your antivirus sofware so no auto-install is taking place. You need to check your installed programs and UNINSTALL everyone you don't recognize. When you download something, check the WHOLE web-page, like Adobe, where some unneeded nasties are also downloaded when you're not careful. Then, on win 7 there are those desktop gadgets, check them and get rid of those you don't recognize them. Mind you, I personally have the absolute minimum software installed on my work's laptop. If want to have 'funny' software, I will do that on one of my home computers. ;-D If you're having Linux, Firefox, etc, perhaps you're not so exposed, but then I don't that software combination... ;-D HTH! Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
