My computer sits humming away, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week - it has a DSL service plugged into the back and checks for e-mails every 5 minutes.
Couple of days ago I felt things were running slowly, yesterday, when I tried to reply to an e-mail, I got a message saying "Insufficient Memory". I turned the machine off - and back on again.
Now I keep getting dozens (and I mean - dozens) of empty windows appearing, with the line
http://vbs.searchwww.com/vbs.cgi - Microsoft Internet Explorer
<<edit: the whole line appears in the title, including the Microsoft reference. The Pprune software has made part of my typing into a hyperlink (that goes to an equally empty window)>>
in the title bar of the window. Nothing else - just that one line of text and an empty window.
Ideas?
System restore maybe?
Windows XP Pro.