Thanks for the welcome, and the info, alsocom. I had played around a little with the Microsoft Anti Spyware and I think I may have deleted the data transfer that was going on. (I did this before I received your reply, and I thought that when a program was blocked it could be reestablished, but it doesn't appear to be the case) I folllowed the directions, and so far, so good. Here is the new log- Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 12:47:01 PM, on 10/4/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System