Quote Originally Posted by Jerry View Post
"I did make one discovery. I seem to be plagued by a pesky netflix popup. Now I have noticed that when the advertisement tab in the task bar flashes, the cursor goes crazy. Maybe this thing is possessed,by a virus. Adaware can't seem to detect and remove it. Norton is loaded on this machine, but it is years out of date. And, since I rarely use this old laptop, I haven't thought it was worth the cost of a Stillwater to update it, or buy new antivirus software. Does anyone know of any decent freeware antivirus?
Jerry,

Firstly, start using Firefox. Secondly, download the AVG free Antivirus software. Install that. Also, another good choice for anti-spyware is spysweeper (not sure if that's the exact name - I'm mainly a Mac guy)... The other thing, do a search on Google to find out how to kill off Windows Messenger (not MSN Messenger, but the built-in messenger, which frequently sends the pop-ups, even if you're not using IE or Firefox.

-J