recently I have done a mega-cleaning here. a guy said that I would need to reinstall windows...but i got a lot of programs (spybot s&d, HijackThis and Spy Sweeper- the last 2 are really good) and started the chase against the badwares... some did not show up, so I needed to remove them mannually. and i did, my pc is new again :happy: I just uninstalled Norton and all his side-progs, they just occupy soo much of the sys and do not protect a thing, imho. using now AVG.