Judy and everyone else who's chimed in,

Actually, I did come back after August 16th, several times, but since I didn't get any response to my last post I just assumed the novelty had worn off. In the meantime I went to Microsoft's virus, etc. number which is free and now fairly straight forward, unlike the pre-SP2 days. I got somebody that was fairly knowledgeable right off the bat and he gave me two pieces of useful information. He said that Clearsearch.net was a variant of CoolWebSearch and that my problem seemed to be a false positve and I should just instruct Spybot to ignore. I'm running CWShredder 2.19 which I think is the latest version and it does not scan for Clearsearch.net.

I thought I had downloaded the latest version of Spybot as per your instructions, but, in fact, I am running 1.3 (will update). I was originally uncomfortable with the "ignore" solution but since both Microsoft and you agree about the false postive I feel better about it.

Thanks again for the help.

Robin