Bernice: i was so impressed that you could fix it by yourself. lol... i was thinking if i did bring it to be fixed, they might not get that alert, i got it today when i started it up, then i rebooted and it came back, then i pulled the wires out of the back of the modem and router and rebooted and it's been ok since. they may not see it. i definitely will use IE tomorrow and chrome the next day, i don't want to try anything now. if it doesn't happen then i guess it's not a virus and it has something to do with ff. i sure hope that's what it is.

ellieoop: LOL....good luck and you sound like you need it ;)