i have my original windows firewall off, and my firewall allowing, and also off .....i thought i specified that earlier, that all programs were allowing it. and i have done full hdd scans 7 times since. and also used spybot search and distroy and another spyware prgram, and removed all, and theres nothing thats it finds anymore, and thats like 3-4 dayes ago. so im pretty sure thats not it...