It's called Spyware, and sadly the default settings on IE will allow people to just install this crap on your computer without even so much as a dialog box popping up to ask you about it. It's just one of many reasons why I switched to Mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org) for my web browser.
But to solve the problem, download your spyware removal tool of choice. Ad-Aware, Spybot, or whatever, and run it. Chances are it will find a great many things you didn't even know were there. Delete them all, and rest a bit easier. Then be sure to keep that program up to date and run it weekly to monthly to ensure you stay spyware free in the future. Also, since you own a Dell, don't expect any help from them at all on this issue. They've passed down an edict to their tech support people not to even give unofficial advice on this subject.
I opened an email recently that has caused my home page to get reset to a porn site when I restart. How can I find this garbage and delete it? I am running
Windows ME on a Dell Dimension 700. I have IE6. Can anyone help me with this. Thanks.

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