SLL,

You are running an antivirus program, right? Have you made sure that it's updated?

Cabinet files are a type of archive (like a .ZIP or .RAR file) that's particular to Microsoft. If you look on your OS install CD, you'll see that most of the directories are .CAB files. You say that you have two with todays date? What are their names?

As for the cookies, if you're running IE and unless you've customized your set up, they are usually in a directory called

"C:\Documents and Settings\{user name}\Cookies"

You can delete all of them if you wish, but you'll loose most any auto-logon's and passwords and stuff like that that you may have set up for web sites that you regularly visit. The only down side to this is that you'll have to manually key in your ID & password the next time you visit a site that you had previously saved. Annoying, but far from being the end of the world.

Another thing you might want to try, go to http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ and download, install and run Ad-Aware. It'll ferret out any spyware applications or applets that have been installed (usually without your knowledge) on your system and give you the chance to remove them.

Good luck!

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