If it is the same one I picked up from here or AS or where ever, it was the wsearch.vbs bho. Only took a couple of minutes to manually fix the problem, though it is aggrevating to be hijacked. My own fault I must admit, I had disabled some safety features on Nav AV and Firewall as well as Win2k while testing something else and then forgot to reenable the features. STUPID STUPID STUPID ! :) BabaLouie