at this point today i've tried to open standard sites like yahoo that would give me pop up windows. so far nothing has popped up which is a good sign, ill continue to use the internet for the remainder of the day and respond tomorrow based on my results if thats ok. also on a side note, the scotty dog patrol thing detected a software update from "google" that was outdated on the copyright, it said copyright 2007-2009, i refused the software update and it hasnt asked since. im not sure if this is relevant or not but i figure i would let you know