BS sends a signal out using Internet Explorer, not sure exactly what that is all about, but it does..hence a redirect (I notice quite a few HP installed redirects in the HiJackThis report) might jack with you...and as a fact, HP is paid to pre-install spyware on their machines....!@#$%^&*( a$$holes.....so definitely run AdAware and Spybot to try and clean it up!