hello all! long story short, i performed a 'schoolboy error' and clicked a link that installed rubbish on my browser. i have managed to manually fix the browser so it is no longer hijacked. i have removed the Mail.Ru add-on from firefox. i have managed to uninstall the program related to Mail.Ru / smartinf.ru. i have run mawarebytes & avast. now everything seems ok, but... i still have a problem, and i am hoping someone here can help. upon restarting, firefox automatically boots, even though it is not supposed to, and i have checked msconfig. i have discovered (by running a diagnostic startup) that there is a problem when i click the os to boot on startup. when it boots up, it automatically boot firefox with the smartinf.ru homepage (even though clicking the google homepage button gets rid of it). i have discovered the problem, but i require assisstance in remedying it. i have attached a jpeg of my msconfig, and you will notice the command line that is highlighted for the os has been replaced by russian text. how is this resolved? br barry