>Did you check in Add/Remove programs if MyWebSearch is installed?

Yes, already, and it wasn't.

>After that I would try http://lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php and

Well, I've tried Spybot (see below) so didn't want to go through another just yet.


>Spybot - Search & Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html free tools.

I already have Spybot, and I'd run it with no results. Maybe that's why my xx.bin sub-folders had been cleared since yesterday, though, as in my reply to Naomi.

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>>Well yes, but I didn't see any ref to how to get rid of this dialogue, and I've already trawled through loads (like most!) of refs and down blind alleys, which is why I thought I'd put it to you guys to see if anyone had come across this before. I guess I'll have to now trawl through these to see if any might have the soln, and not one I've already visited.
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>>Unless I've gone citation-blind or something! :-)
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