Check that you don't have MS Office 'Find Fast' running at startup.

Scan your system for viruses/malware.

Online Antivirus scanners:
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http://housecall.trendmicro.com/hous...start_corp.asp
http://www.kaspersky.com/remoteviruschk.html
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/activescan.asp
http://commandondemand.com/eval/index.cfm
http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/ [See **]
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php
http://www.pcpitstop.com/antivirus/default.asp
http://scan.sygatetech.com/prestealthscan.html

** Caveat:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archiv...3-07/0240.html

Anti-virus programs:
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eZ Antivirus (Computer Associates)
http://www.my-etrust.com/products/Antivirus.cfm

Vet (Computer Associates)
http://www.vet.com.au/html/products/index.html

Sophos
http://www.sophos.com/products/software/antivirus/

KAV
http://www.kaspersky.com/

F-Prot
http://www.f-prot.com/download/

AVG
http://www.grisoft.com/


Anti-trojan:
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Trojan Defence Suite
http://tds.diamondcs.com.au/

Trojan Hunter
http://www.misec.net/trojanhunter.jsp

Trojan Remover
http://www.simplysup.com/

Tauscan
http://www.agnitum.com/products/tauscan/


Anti-spyware:
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Spybot Search & Destroy
http://spybot.eon.net.au/
http://www.safer-networking.org/

Ad-Aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

Spyware Blaster
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html

HijackThis
http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/



On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:57:50 -0500, in
<bhtafp$e7k$1@slb5.atl.mindspring.net>
Dusty scrawled:

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Basic computer maintenance
http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html