well..its now on 280k files scanned....when my avg scans,,it does 87k!! ah, just finished no virus at 283k files on c drive. im still non the wiser!! :D hardly surprising - the cleanest pc ever :D we can probably start along the road to find out what the problem (see my post, glens and bd's earlier) but you will have be prepared to risk doing it - risk being you may lose internet access while you are doing it. Do you want to have a go :D Lose my internet connection??? :D But i do need to find out what is going on AVG and AVAST have picked up nothing.