lop.com Evil incarnate -- worse that gator, and that's hard. lop.com can be removed and blocked by SpyBotS&D, and Hijack this. However, it can only remove them on load, so you have to set it up to do the removal on a reboot -- after disabling the toolbar in your preferences for IE lop.com is actively working to do the same thing with Opera, NS, and Mozilla (Firefox). The dialer needs to be disabled in the connections tab of your internet options, first, and then again in your network connections. Deleting it will generally work provided registry changes haven't been made to restore it automatically.

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)