I just did a whole search on all of my systems and checked the Registery folders you mentioned and I don't have it. I even ran the "Find" option on my systems, looking for "STARTIE NOTEPAD QAZWSX.HSQ" and came up with NADA... So my next question would be, what version of Explorer are you using? I know that their new version 5 update is supposed to fix a "leak" in your system that some hackers had managed to locate and exploit... perhaps that might be something for you to look into. However, since I don't get this file and don't have it on any of my systems... I am confident enough to say that it isn't the software that is causing this trouble... Now, I can't say that it isn't likely that you might not have downloaded this file while downloading something from the FreeStuff section (since I don't get time to download much from there), and if that is the case, it would be likely that someone put a file up in the FreeStuff section that could be "infected" or from something like GeoCities or some such which can be accessed through the FreeStuff section... of which neither of them do I have any control over and hopefully you have a Download Virus Scanner running when you do. All I know is it isn't the software or forum sections that are causing this. Jack