Sounds like a good starting point would be to get rid of the Mcafee firewall. There is a much better free one called zonealarm available at www.zonesystems.com.  The problem with restoring to a point in the past is that you may get rid of things you want that didn't exist before the restore point.  If it has only been a day and you haven't created any irreplaceable files, then a restore point is the cleanest way to get rid of it. A regular uninstall should be OK if you can't remember what else you might lose.  If you think you have some kind of virus or spyware, then run the Mcafee virus checker after you've made sure it has the latest virus updates.  If you don't have a spyware checker, download the popular freebie Spybot 1.3 (latest version).  Do a google search for "spybot 1.3" without the quotes and you'll get a ton of download sites for it.

>Help!  Recently, I bought a new Dell computer.  It came with McAfee already
>installed on it.  I recently downloaded two free trial programs that come with
>it...their firewall and something called Privacy.  It seems like ever since I
>did that, when I boot up, Internet Explorer automatically opens a screen
>called PCSecurity???.com and if you click off the "X" to get rid of it, it starts
>opening like 20 IE screens one after another almost simultaneously so fast that
>it locks up my system.  Sometimes, I'll find a notice at the bottom of my
>screen that says the screens are in an IE group.  I try to right click the group
>and delete it that way, but it doesn't work usually, and then when I bring up
>the task manager and try to close it that way, a whole bunch of "end program"
>signs show up on the bottom.  Then I have to delete each one by hand, if I can
>even get that far.  My question is this.  How do I go about stopping IE from
>opening up automatically like that?  (I use AOL).  Is there a way to find the
>"culprit" that is causing this and delete it?  If not, do you suggest I do a
>restore point to get rid of it?  I have since deleted the Privacy feature since
>it hung up my computer so bad before showing up it just annoyed me anyway.  I
>have kept the firewall beause I like that feature, but if that's what's
>causing it to do that, then I'll get rid of that too.  It is possible that this
>happened unrelated to the McAfee software installation.  We did alot of
>downloading before I installed the firewall and this might have gotten onto my system
>before I installed the firewall and realized how many cookies were being sent
>to my machine without my knowledge!  Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
>

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