Seems a waste to not remove it anyway. At least you could still use the old computer. Its amazing how quickly you can pick up a nasty innocently. Googling can be dangerous unless you are warned about certain sites. Owbist gave you a good tool with Web of Trust (WOT). I've used it for years and it warns you when you click on a website that is dangerous. Happened to me last night when I was searching for an answer to a computer problem. The tool actually prevents you from clicking on the site with a large warning. The site I was going to came up in a Google search for my computer problem. Looked legit but apparently it wasn't. You should download WOT on your new machine to prevent another problem in the future. It is so scary how many malicious websites are out there. Good luck, Jane

Thank you Owbist. On the occasion I have to work with a tech like I just did with an apple tech they confirm what you said. LOL By the way I had a real problem with an upgrade on Itunes. I called and companies usually blame the user but I had proof tthis time and the young tech called his supervisor then he walked me through a fix. It had made my cd/dvd drive icon disappear and unusable. I found a fix on the net that worked then my itunes didn't. So I went round and round for awhile. It all works now.

did you make sure you got the version for IE and not the firefox one? there are different downloads for each browser. I have had WOT for a while and never encountered that message, it installed to my firefox and was immediately available to me.

Hi, Thanks for the response and the link. :-) I looked at the engines listed there and tried all of them. But, besides the usual (Yahoo, etc.) only about 3 of the 24 listed actually showed the WOT ratings circles in the search results, including Netscape/AOL, Dogpile and Yandex. (But those are 3 I didn't know about previously, so thanks !) The article was written back in Feb., so maybe some things changed over the last 10 months. ?? I did find another page (link below) that lists a lot search engines, what the website owners call "anti-google" engines. (The site, be warned, is very political in nature. I don't even know much about it since I only went to it because it was listed in results of a search I was doing for 'alternate search engines.') I have only looked at a few of them so far, since as noted I was hoping to find some premade list of WOT compatible searches so that I wouldn't have to work my way through so many myself. Here is a link that might be useful: Anti-Google Search Engines.