Ok, that seems to have stopped the popups for the moment, but we've just cured the symptom, not the disease. I can't get the volume to work on audio or video files now, nor can I access certain work websites that I've used for years...just get a blank page, no error message, nothing...just white space. This all coincided with this .bid thing hitting my system. SOMEthing was creating all those outbound attempts to other sites from mine....THAT's what we need to know how to eliminate. EDIT: I'm also having strange issues with site I work with where I can access the site, but once in, I can't place my cursor ANYwhere in any of the boxes where I normally would....they're there, but I can't enter ANY data to them. This damn thing is like a friggin' gremlin, just running around, partially messing with websites I use.