The thing is is that this dosent occur on my laptop, only on my desktop. I have just eliminated a herd of viruses, malwarem and adware on my desktop but it still does it. It also jumps to 100% cpu power often, sometimes locking up forcing me to restart. It gets on my nervs becaues i have had my desktop for 5 years and it has worked unfailingly. Ok im on the internet on my desktop wjich is setting right next to me and my old home page was www.google.com/ig and now its www.example.net/some/place/. oes that help ya out any?