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Can you run the Adaware program in Safe Mode? To start in safe mode, press the F8 key after the black DOS screen and before the Windows screen. It will open a DOS menu, use the arrow keys to move to Safe Mode, load, and see if the Adaware program runs.The only thing in my reg key for the Domains is (Default) REG_SZ and nothing under valuse. Try deleting anything else in this reg key manually.W. Sieffert

Thank you for your help but it didn

Enter the Windows registry and open the following keys:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRunHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRunOnceHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRunOnceExHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet SettingsZoneMapDomainsHKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRunHKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet SettingsZoneMapDomainsHKEY_CURRENT_CONFIGSoftwareMicrosoftwindowsCurrentVersionInternet Settingsand see if any of them have the settings you are experiencing. If so, delete the entries.If not, try searching the entire registry for 63.219.181.7.W. Sieffert

Thank you once again for your efforts but this one is a tough nut to crack... It

Separate question: what airplane is that in the picture?Looks very "real"...

He, he, he...They are both real. I use pictures from airliners.net as my wallpaper. ;-)The first is an A320 slowing down and the other an A310 taking off, both from TAP and at LPMA. Hope this helps. :-)

Well, one can always hope...

While reading the Microsoft SP2 site I noticed they mention a program called "Spybot Search & Destroy" and decided to give it a try... what do I had to loose? Besides with a name like that how could I fail? :-)Like before it detected some more stuff the other two I tried (Ad-Aware and Spybouncer) didn

It almost sounds like the ID you are logged in with does not have permissions to make changes. What Operating system are you running and what kind of internet connection do you have (cable, DSL, Dial modem)?That IP address resolves to connect.online-dialer.com. Perhaps do a search on that in your registry.Check your Add/remove Programs for it too.Jim

Thank you for your reply.I appreciate it.I managed to solve the problem thanks to detailed step by step instructions provided by the good folks at windowsbbs.com.Apparently this is a common problem as there are lots of people on that forum with the same problem.I