Thanks for the replies. FYI To tell AVG to ignore programs it's under advanced settings. I did that at the get go, and it made no difference as this controls only Anti Virus. I think I will be investigating Avast on your recommendations, I notice it's the second largest free download on a couple of sites after AVG. Paradoxically if I were to use the free version I would not of had the problem. I am a registered user of XP, but I distrust anything coming out of Microsoft after an update which as far as I could see just disablebd the ability I had to burn copy cds for my car, and installed more snoopware.