I just used AD-Ware and I think because I use AOL it must have messed it up. It might have removed something from AOL to cause my IE not to work and I lost some programs too. I got everything to work again after awhile but does anyone have any thoughts about this?

That is possible. When setting up Adaware, look at the options. You can quarantine things without deleting them.

After removing 61 spyware files, I could not access email or internet. (They weren't leaving without a fight). They deleted CSSEQCHK.DLL, a valid MS IE6 file. Ran "repair" option for IE6, told me which file was missing. Extracted a new one, (have IE6 install files saved on another PC), still no joy. Searched MS KB and found this XP Document Number 811259. Performed the WINSOCK repair section and now am back up and running. It worked even though I am running Win98 on that computer. AOL has a lot of proprietary software and functions, and it is possible some were seen as threats and removed, or they were "attached" somehow to the threat and corrupted during removal. Maybe the MS KB Document above can help you...