each time the about blank hijacks my home page JAVAPR.EXE appears in my startup. I've looked thru your startup listings and do not see this particular program. What is it? I notice all kinds of problems; printing and overall slowdowns once that program is activated and suspect it has nothing to do with the legimate Java program. I am running DSL on a windows 98 PC (2nd version) and recently had problems getting the Norton virus updates when this appeared (I went about 10 days without the most up to date virus definitions).