My concern was I never heard of it before. It showed up on my little Net book. I don't look at videos or movies on the netbook or any of my computers. Maybe a ITube once in a while. I'm quite boring, I don't watch movies on tv either. I have XP on all the computers. I didn't download it. Thanks for the explanation, I couldn't figure out if I needed it for something. Jane

I run my security programs about 2 to 3 weeks apart. I know I did not install anything since last security runs. There were several instances of Conduit/Search/Protect, some in registry value or key. Malwarebytes removed them or quarantined them all. But I KNOW I did not install a program. I have more programs than I need, now. I just can't figure out where they come from. I do email, read news online, read forums. That's pretty much all I do. Makes no sense that the pups are on here. Thanks for the reply.

it is just basically Microsofts product as a competitor to Adobe's Flash. Since it is a framework for providing rich applications to the Internet browsers. "Windows users probably won't care whether the rich Web app they are visiting is using Silverlight or Flash. Both technologies require a small plug-in (as of IE7, Flash is no longer bundled with the browser) and once installed, both are invisible until the user hits a page that requires their services." that is true if it works when we need it to then that is what most people care about. It will make more impact for publishers and web developers. Unfortunately they have not made it fully cross platform it is not for linux but there is an open source project in the works too called moonlight for linux. This is a good article about silverlight and linux Microsoft's Silverlight Promises to Disrupt Linux Web Users here is the wiki on silverlight Microsoft Silverlight

MS has a support article on it ... about 1 yr old. Gardenweb link at bottom. but it also says The ISATAP adapter encapsulates IPv6 packets by using an IPv4 header. This functionality enables the client to transport IPv6 traffic over an IPv4 infrastructure. ....... I'd probably try rebuilding the Tcp/Ip stack... A standard fix for problematic network connection problems anyways. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299357 (MS Fixit) Here is a link that might be useful: MS Support 'ISATAP adapter code 31'