Reply #7: Figured it out -- and Ad-Aware Didn't Find It [View All]

[HFishbine]

Thanks all for your great suggestions. I have Ad-Aware and it didn't find anything. But I think I found the problem.

It appears to be a piece of adware called Winshow. I found removal instructions here:

http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/library/winshow/index.phtml

I'm not sure how I got this. I use IE but with a pop-up stopper and alerts for Active X controls turned on -- which I usually deny.

The removal instrutions recommend Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner for detecting this and other nasty things (http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html).

Thanks again for the help.