Zonealarm is suddenly giving me an alert that a program is trying to access the internet everytime I try to open IE. I can't load up any pages without granting access to this program. But this program has no details. I had the idea of permanently denying access to the program so I could see what new program has an X next to it in the ZA program list (those of you that have ZA will know what I'm on about) but nothing new came up. Now strangely, I have another 'no name' program needing to access the internet before I can use IE. I was thinking virus, but virus scans with the latest McAfee show a clean system. Maybe I have to check boot sectors or something. Can anyone shed any light?

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ Use the above address to download ADAWARE. It will most probably find the culprit and help you get rid of it.From its suspicious sounding nature I would guess it ad/spyware that was installed on your system. Jimi_l

That's a good bet.Or a trojan.Have an anti-trojan program?I use Tojan Hunter.

Cheers for that Jimi. I took your advise and used Ad-Aware. I did indeed have spyware on my system (Cydoor and Alexis), but unfortunately, on restarting my computer, I still had (what I think is) the same unknown program needing access to the internet before I can start IE. I will try Jim's suggestion and take a pop with Trojan Hunter. But like I said, thanks for the advise. I'd be f****d without people like you guys.

Mateus,hope it helps.Just helpin others like ppl have done for me.Try wilders.org for a trial download.They have reviews and lots of stuff there.and they are a safe download site.

Don't know if you guys are still reading this thread, but Trojan hunter gave me what I needed after Ad-aware had got rid of the spyware. It was a program in a temp directory called checkeve.dll (or something like that). Deleted it. Problem solved. Many thanks guys.