Thanks for all the replies, folks!

I'm going to post a quickie, cause I'm SCARED!!!

I was just checking my e-mail and had a message from a student with pics to download (sometimes they send visual illusions and the like)...well it passed the McaFee virus check, but wouldn't open normally...the hard drive just kept chugging and chugging...with no little folder icon to indicate down load progress etc.

I got scared and cancelled it...deleted the file, but my computer is still chugging!

I turned it right off and rebooted, but it doesn't seem quite right...still too much chug and when I hit my hotmail icon it went to Yahoo.com???? I had to type in www.hotmail.com to get there???

Heavens! Have I picked up a virus??? HELP!

Shiny