I read that it was hard to uninstall RealPlayer, they called it 'Badware', but I may have succeeded. Computer told me I had to reboot to get rid of the 'Real/RealPlayer..' bad part so hope it worked. If it uninstalled is it not active or does it come back to life like Dracula if you don't put a stake through his heart? AVG thinks its gone.

I guess there are bits of RealPlayer in many places on computer but things seem ok so will hope, there are directions online how to get rid of those but it looks fairly scarey.

I also got rid of my 200+ bits of crud, I suppose I will get 200 more in .5 seconds online.

Icehouse , my sister offered to give me her year old Mac but she invested all her retirement money in a pickle factory so I don't think she can afford to do that any more. Besides, do you really want me to have to learn a whole new way of doing things?

Ditto Ubuntu, :eek

Ginnie, it is possible I am untrainable.

If anyone knows if the Trojan is really still there and Im deluding myself please let me know.

judi