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O.K. Steven, I did some research on the link below and came up with this info: > Unlike most conventional spyware, imrworldwide.com's Red Sheriff is > loaded as a Java applet embedded in a Web page you visit. Once loaded, > it sends information about your Internet usage (how long the page took > to load, how long you stayed, etc.) to the parent company, supposedly > bypassing firewalls, cookie blockers and the like. A number of > Internet Service Providers have begun including Red Sheriff on their > start pages, which are programmed to load every time the user logs on > to the Internet. If you or someone you know is aware (thanks, Steven) that it is on your system this is a link on how to stop it: http://www.microskomp.com/archives/000035.ms Even BBC.com uses it. Rod Stephens Family Theater Productions Steven C. Barr wrote: > Rod Stephen's post triggered an "Unspecified Security Warning" > message...and in looking at it, the HTML content seems to > run one or more Java scripts, including at least one sourced from > http://imrworldwide.com/ (or so it appears). > > Were the contents copied digitally from a web site? > Steven C. Barr