Don wrote:
>a small pop-up window appears briefly with the
>message, "Add served by FBrowser Advisor" immediately followed by a full
>page advertisement. This thing has apparently planted itself deep into the
>system and concealed itself so all the above programs cannot find it.>>


Have a look in Add/Remove Programs and see if you can remove FBrowser from 
there. It is a small alternative browser, though I've no idea how it could 
have got onto your system without you installing it.

Don Penlington


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