I use avg protection, and up until about 2 weeks ago, I never had a problem. So something changed in the equation to make my computer start doing this. I really am not too keen on shutting down my protection, I am going to go to microsoft website and do a little research if nothing solid comes up here. Thanks for the reply bbs. I guess it could be worse with no computer access. I do think they are all a piece of shit though. Ive gone through 3 in the past couple of years, granted one of them was my putting my fist through it. Suppossed to be able to do thousands of things a second my ass, my others couldn’t do two things at once lol.