It all worked out and MSN seems to be working fine. Thankyou very, very much for your help :-)

When I go to do the System Restore it doesn't open or 'recognise' the 'gpedit.msc' command when I type it in the run box. I rebooted into Safe Mode and logged in as Admin. but it still wouldn't work.

[b]Did all that and here's the log:[/b] Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 11:02:18, on 18/06/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.290 ...

[b]Well I did all of that (took a while... ah well). Anyway, here are the logs:[/b] [b][/b] [b]HijackThis Log:[/b] [b][/b] Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 21:36:34, on 17/06 ...

[b]Okay, last night my friend sent me a link saying something like 'Click on this link to see a picture of you on myspace <link>'.[/b] [b]Before I realised it was a virus I clicked on it. It ...