Hercules - So your Daddy was a Lawnboy dealer, Huh ??? I guess that is why you wanted to extract your small pound of flesh from my post. I had poked fun at the Lawnboy guys earlier. I suspect that you are really a small man who suffers from small man syndrome (which is why you gave yourself the name Hercules - hopefully you didn't come up with name after the flower???) Definitions of Spyware: * Installs itself on a PC without user's knowledge - yep. * Tracks computer usage - yep * Can be difficult to remove - so far not too much of a problem * commercial or criminal intent - probably commerical. * can/may spread itself - haven't seen that yet. Types of Spyware: * Ad-aware * Keylogger * Browser hijackers * Dialers Removal: * Spyware software from a respected vendor (i.e. more that one version of a vendor software is probably recommended - I have found that only one version doesn't always catch everything). Hercules - I think you are nothing but a really big fake and your posts in this thread were nothing more than trying to get even from poking fun at the Lawn boy guys in an earlier post. There is enough history of your posts and follow-ups to support that theory.

the very best way is to do exactly what you are doing and ask, that way you can get replies from those who have tried it and like it also if there were any problems or glitches, you can also check other support forums for problems listed with a specific update. I do that prior to doing any of my windows updates, I check the forums for comments and if there are problems I wait till I know they have been resolved. As far as IE8 goes there are some conflict problems with certain programs which is why it is a very good idea to read up on it and if you are running those programs be prepared prior to install. I go to google and google IE8 Conflicts and find a wealth of info. Since every system is different there never is a guarantee that any one program will work the same way it does on any other system, so we do have to take chances sometimes and just dive in with fingers crossed.

Jann, I just download/installed on my Windows 98 SE test box. It installed okay but wouldn't open until I downloaded/installed the VB6SP6 Runtime files. Now it works okay. If you need the VB6 runtime files you can download at the link below. HTH. Terry Here is a link that might be useful: Visual Basic 6 SP6 Runtime library SP6 (vb6 dlls)

Related question. AVG anti spyware is Ewido renamed. I ran Ewido for ages but during a reinstall it got left out because I forgot it. Now I have installed the AVG anti spyware. My question is, will this update automatically as Ewido did for 30 days only? It will not be a problem but I wondered if after the renaming whether AVG has made it a permanent auto updating program. Any comments appreciated.