[edchambers]

(I installed Ad Aware the other day and immediately my computer shut down. Rebooted and the same thing happened.)

Adaware will do this if you have a spyware program loaded into memory and running.It looks like you solved the problem but you could have rebooted to "safe mode" and then run Adaware.Sometimes if you have a machine that's really infected you'll have to do allot of work in safe mode to bring it back.The following programs are useful in safe mode; 1. "Add and remove Programs" from Control Panel 2."Windows Explorer" will allow you to delete things you might not otherwise be able to delete while they're running 3.Tweak Now RegCleaner will safely let you remove this stuff from your registry and create a backup just in case 4.Spybot,Adaware,and AVG will all run in safe mode so you can remove the junk before it's loaded back into memory.At this point if you still can't get rid of this stuff I usually just reformat and reinstall whatever operating system your running and be sure to get all the updates to include updates for your security stuff too.

[jellybean]

I'm using Windows XP SP 2 and I have all the latest updates. I don't use Internet Explorer...usally use Netscape 7.2 or Firefox. I thought at first I may have picked up a virus or trojan as well. I ran a scan with Stop Sign after uninstalling Ad Aware, but only had a couple of ad ware, which were removed. Everything is running fine after removing Ad Aware. Thanks for you response.