Reply #43: Wow -- thanks so much for the great reply.

[Emillereid]

I have been fussing with my daughter's computer for several months now trying to clean it out. I first tried to re-format but I couldn't figure out how. I downloaded spybot and got Norton's -- they discovered 235 adware things and 27 viruses -- it had become completely unworkable. Even though I have spybot running its immunizing program and norton's firewall -- the adware things still manage to get in somehow. I've instructed everyone to use only netscape -- and that has the pop up blocker on. I've gone into the registry before to manually take out stuff. Because of all the problems on the machine my family doesn't want to use it -- they like my mac instead! There's not a whole lot on the computer that we want to keep that can't be reinstalled -- I wouldn't mind reformatting -- but I haven't figured out how. BTW, I have a feeling that Kazaa was the original problem.