Do a web search of the string and see what you find. Probably just a popup ad. Flash is the animated software that makes those annoying flashing graphics that take forever to download on a dial up. I have most all Flash blocked. The 160x600 would be the size of the window it makes when it pops up on your screen. Depending on what browser you use different things come up. I use Firefox on a PC and sometimes it tells me it doesn't have a certificate in its library for the website I'm trying to go to - even when it's Microsoft's own website! I'm thinking the code writers just didn't want to include the competition in their list of known certificates. There's all kinds of security settings you can set depending on what browser you're using. I don't know enough about the Mac versions to give you specific advice. You can search on the web for Firefox for Mac, or Safari, or whatever you're using.

hello, the machine is only 3 years old,yes i did destroy all the data on it after i formatted.i still have the larger drive but it won't read it. last night a neighbor gave me a windows 2000 disc and i formatted the drive again and it worked;it saw the full capacity of the drive and is ready to use, however when i try to bring the second drive with 225 + gigs of data on it it will not see it no matter how i switch things around bios won't read it, so i took it out, the drive i have working is set to master and is the only drive in the pc but bios says it is a secondary slave drive but it is on the primary ide channel and set to master!!everything in bios is set to auto detect drives,but as soon as i connect the other drive as a slave drive and reboot, the computer freezes and gets stuck on the post screen and hangs.funny thing is when i take that drive and put it in the hard drive enclosure that converts regular drives to use with usb and plug it into the computer i am on right now and reboot, windows comes up and says : found new hardware,mass storage usb device,your hardware is installed and ready to use,it even gives me a new drive letter,shows the drive as a western digital drive but... when i click on the drive letter it says please insert a disk into drive j....hmmm

I would run like hell from this dog if I were you. FWIW it took us from May to December last year to sell the nicest house (by far) in its price bracket on a beautiful wooded lot in a very good town because the lot line of the one-acre lot was 500+ yards from a four-lane divided highway. That is ten times further than the house you're considering, with a 1/3 smaller highway. In the summer you couldn't even see the highway through the thick trees around the house. We had well over a hundred lookers and the #1 cited reason for not putting in an offer was that bloody highway. I can't tell you how many times we heard "it's a lovely house at a great price and in every other way it's perfect for us, but it's just too close to the highway". We got used to the noise within a few weeks and were even content hanging out on the deck but it was indeed a deal-breaker for most people. When it finally sold after a big price drop we were very lucky not to have had to bring money to the table to get out from under the mortgage, but we lost tens of thousands when we totalled up everything we'd done to the house. Frankly, that property sounds pretty much unsaleable even if you put double your budget into it and spiffed it up to be the nicest house in the neighborhood. Sure, you could soundproof the house to an extreme with insulation, QuietRock, and soundproofed doors/windows, put the highest allowable fence around the yard to block a tiny bit of the noise, and put in a great air-cleaner to filter out all the vehicle exhaust, but no one is going to want to hang out on the waterfront or by the pool if "you hear nothing but a roar", so why would they pay a premium price for that? BTW, with the house being 30+ years old, with the level of remodeling the house needs you may run into a mandate to bring it up to current code for hurricane resistance, etc. Where I live, gut remodels - and that'll be a gut job, no two ways about it - are subject to almost all the same rules in that department as new construction. You can do much, much better. Be patient. If you are truly bent on real estate investment, the market has not yet hit bottom in most areas of the US, and you will aurely be able to find a house that is more easily salvageable and is in a less rotten location. Especially since you are a RE agent and have first dibs on seeing a lot of properties. But unless your market is a lot better than most, I think you may have missed the boat on the whole remodel-and-resell-for-profits thing.

This is long, but I gained so much information from just lurking and searching on this site I am more than compelled to help with what we have learned MARBLE ...I found lots of information on this site through a "marble countertops" search. Both GW and my own research have been proven with 6 months' experience in a working kitchen: Statuary (or any other) marble is GOING TO ETCH. It is also GOING TO STAIN. I did not really believe this when reading it and hearing it.LISTEN: this is true. A way to minimize the effect of the etching is to start with honed marble. A reputable fabricator and installer is also important/seams make a difference so research and get a CLEAR WRITTEN AGREEMENT about location of seams ahead of time. Sealant is very important at the time of installation. Even so, we were surprised at the etching....even with being careful, many substances left on the surface for any amount of time may leave spots that are dull in comparison to the rest of the surface. It doesn't look bad necessarily...but is definitely there and is not "perfect". Actually, the surface (being stone) was not "perfect" from the beginning... there will be some little spots (tiny) that you either have to live with or have "filled" in granite, soapstone, or marble. But it is still really gorgeous. We are pleased with the installation and performance of the marble. To start with, we preferred the look of honed instead of polished marble so that helped. Carrera marble has a lot of smaller markings in it (both brown and gray) and is really more gray when looked at overall than some other marbles such as Calacutta. This also helps with the etching and staining. Although we really liked Calacutta in the end it did not seem worth the additional cost in our layout- so we did use Carrera. Overall, I'm very satisfied as is DH. We have tried with success 600 wet/dry sandpaper to polish out a spotty area that was caused by what we think was Diet Coke "spray". I think we would have been disappointed in using anything polished due to the etching, but maybe also b/c we just like the honed look. LOVE the way it performs for rolling out dough, etc. NOTE about backsplash for Carrera: be careful. Samples do not always represent how gray or how white or brown the finished countertops will be. Maybe even have the countertop installed and take the (I know its hard to wait and may be extra expense) time to look at backsplash options then... Marble is SO PRETTY in bathrooms but is a little scary as far as maintenance...still not too sure about stone in the shower area as far as maintenance...ended up with porcelain tile and happy after 6 months with the chores. Wouldn't be happy with staining and etching in this setting. GRANITE: Still a lot of great options that are so durable and forgiving. Some of the options for bathroom countertops are great. Honed is a VERY BAD idea for Absolut: this finish ends up with grease-like stains. Did not make this mistake but have observed it in multiple settings. Note that ANY granite is going to have mica (ie: shiny) spots in it. It will not mix well even in honed finish with things like a Kohler black and tan cast iron finish. Granite isn't dated if it fits with the cabinets, flooring, etc. but still be careful. So expected now, but some of the solid surface is worth looking at in many settings. Solid surface can really look like formica if you don't watch out! It is important to remember that DARK granite has the characteristics that are so forgiving. LIGHT granite will etch and stain just about the same as say, marble or limestone. So if you just love the way the lighter marble looks, don't substitute light granite thinking it is so much more "practical"...it's NOT. Granite looks more contemporary no matter what you do in kitchen or bath than, say, marble. That should be okay, right? Homes don't stagnate, they are maintained. Or they go the other way....not good! SOAPSTONE: We LOVE our soapstone tops. We don't love (still) having to oil them. This will end but hasn't yet.... Soapstone is very forgiving (remember hs lab tables!) but does CHIP and scratch EASILY. It blends really well with lots of finishes. Final notes about installation/fabrication of any countertop material: Seriously look at references of installers/fabricators. We had a slightly bad experience regarding seams in a spot that should not have had seams. Although it worked out, we had to eventually agree to pay more than originally agreed upon total price to have non-seamed top in one area. Still feeling a little burned on this. The installer/fabricator did not do what should have been done. Their mistake, not ours. SO, we recommend that anyone have a WRITTEN AND DRAWN OUT agreement as to where ANY seams will be(sometimes a seam is not visible/does not matter. Sometimes it REALLY matters). Our experience was that the fabricator/installer mis-measured a remnant, then seamed a piece that should have been "solid". Having no signed agreement,even though we had provided exact measurements, we had no recourse. Not terribly expensive at all, it just didn't feel good since we thought we did our part. Happy now to have the finished top, not seamed, in place. Great work, great result...