Hello, I'm new to this forum and hope you can help. We have a new HP Pavillion a6303w with Windows Vista as operating system. I've heard about major problems with Vista. I'm trying to figure out what it means when I load a blank CD/DVD into the E: drive and I end up getting a popup window telling me that [b]"PowerStarter has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available." The only problem is that there's never a solution found. And when I attempt to simply format a DVD to copy files or photo's or whatever, it vomits up this dang window. Any ideas what this is all about? Also, if it isn't to much to ask, we recently downloaded Norton 360 but we keep getting hit with weird web sites that try to pop up after opening Internet Explorer. We've tried reporting them through Phishing Protection but they are relentless. Every time we open a new window to search or surf, we get hit with an unsolicited web site. Everything from spyware protection to singles web sites. It's bloody annoying and would like to be able to set it up so we don't have to deal with these idiot's web sites popping up while we're surfing the net. Any suggestions how to stop this from happening? Your help would be greatly appreciated. I'll look forward to learning what I can do to resolve both problems. Thanks a million. PRGirl

Methinks this is a case for the malware busters

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