Bruce, you wrote "Whenever I turn it on it will sign on by itself.".

As you can see by our e-mail address above we also have AOL - when our computer is fired up it too will sign itself on, but, AOL provides a method for doing this and it's what we want.

Your computer must have this start up feature installed, check your lower right toolbar there should be the AOL icon with a white dot in the top right corner, put your cursor on this icon and it will tell you for sure if it's "connection enabled".

If you deceide to restore your computer I would suggest that before you restore, check each folder/file for a virus, copy it to a disk, then restore and put your folders/files back on.