A Few day ago, I noticed all the words "the" are now highlighted in yellow on my pc screen. VERY weird. Anyone ever seen this strangeness? Emails, BBS posts ..... everytime the word "the" appears ..... it's highlighted.

Am I nuts?
(with regard to this, specific item, that is? )

Dave...
You are NOT nuts...in this regard.

I had a similar situation not long ago where all kinds of words were highlighted, regardless of what site I was on. And ALL were spyware links to ads.

The solution was to run Spybot, which eliminated the problem.

Eddie

Another great FREE program that works well in combination with Spybot is SpyGuard. It catches any spyware that tries to get into your system before it takes residence.
More info and downloading access here: http://www.spywareguard.com/

Eddie

Dave, I had that on my computer a week or two, ago with the word Gem..It was an add..Run Ad-aware, it will get rid of it..

UD. I think it's time you changed your brand of whisty !!!!

Here we have a guy making his living as a performer in the music business and he wonders if he's nuts! In reality it's the rest of us who work at jobs we dislike who are really nuts.

SUCCESS !!!!!

Spywareguard did the trick !
Of course, it also erased all the cookies that had my name, passwords, etc stored in different places, but no big deal !

Whooooo Hooooo !!!!!!!

Thanx guys!

So I guess Spywareguard is really "the definite article" for fixing that sort of thing. A real "gem."

Michael