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To ACthe Troll and Mac70, Hallo , After 2 weeks I just got on this morning after 2 weeks of looping. Hadnt read your messages because I live in the mountains in Spain and only get down to a cibercafe once a week. I was suspect of SP3 and AV8 and spoke top my son in London about uninstalling them but he was a bit wary of the SP3 as it has been in over a month and may leave some pieces behind.
So I told him on the phone that I would take AVG 8 out. This I did and when it had finished, there was my desktop at last.
Thanks for your help , I have written down your comments as Maybe things are not over yet. Now I have no antivirus,
I have the windows firewall and Defender and also the Spybot search and destroy. Am I in a hurry for a new antivirus ? Avast free home edition seems well spoken of but somebody says it can take nearly 2 hours to download updates. I am on wi-fi and internet can have short breaks so I am worried this may happen in an update and cause problems...will it ? Thanks again lads.. Almendros