Hello as I mentioned I did delete the EXE file and that seams to have stopped things especially after useing msconfig to get it out of htere too. BUT BE WARNED. After someone mentioned a possible Trojan alert in a post I had on a similure topic as yours, I double checked my Norton logs. IT found two items called IRC mimic. And 9 NINE!!!! items called Trojan.IrcBounce!!!! I would DEFINATLY look into some anti-virus software. Especially if you dont recall downloading Mirc to start with!!