[jaysay]

Can anybody help with this problem? I run Vista home on my Laptop, with Mcafee security centre, never had any trouble with it, well very little that is. This morning logged on to accy web and noticed it installing security icon twirling on my toolbar, carried on and when it finished a sign came up "you must restart your computer to finish installation, so while I was having breakfast I did, that's when the problem started. on rebooting it wouldn't go past the welcome screen with the small whirling icon in the centre. I waited for ten minutes (as you do) then lost my rag call the machine all the names under the son, then decided to think about it. I decided to turn back my settings to yesterday, which I did, problem solved eventually after messing about with my router too. The only thing is that its done the same again and reinstalled it, but this time I haven't rebooted my laptop. looked at my settings says firewalls and other things are okay but has questions on others which haven't seen before. on my toolbar there is a red shield Icon with a white cross in it, never seen this before, when I hold my mouse over it it says windows security alerts, I have turned off automatic updates ages ago as they were causing me problems every day, disabling toolbars etc. You have to remember I am to computer knowledge as Bernard Manning was to hang gliding, in other words I know where the on button is. Can somebody please help before the men in white coats arrive to take me away,thank you