Not sure if I'm in the right zone but here goes anyway.

I have an Advent laptop running on Windows XP and am fairly new to computers.

Noticed an icon on the desktop labelled"Microsoft anti spyware" and on clicking on this was told that it was out of date and should be replaced by Beta 2. So downloaded and installed this version and this told me to get rid of adaware cos it is potentially damaging. Snag is that the Lavasoft adaware shows some 17 items and if I get rid of these I may make the pc inoperable. There are also two other adaware icons on the desk top, one is aaw personal and the other is adaware SE Personal.

What should I do??

Also, the Microsoft anti spyware icon has disappeared from the desk top. How do I get it back?

Any advice much appreciated.

Peter

PS Just thought of something else while I'm here. Thinking f converting recorded music on CD or cassette to MP3 form. How do I go about it?