Hello 1.) i've never posted on a board at all before so i hope i'm doing it right 2) my computer was a mess........I ran nortons and it came back with 236 viruses. I was able to delete the majority of them by simply finding where they were in the program files and deleting them. A few however were listed as locked. I went to the task manager and shut them off and tried to delete them again but to no avail. 3) the remaining pain in the rear viruses are: winik.sys -C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\winik.sys cnml.exe GEACH8hM.dll GEACH8