when i shut down the 'uter it says shutting down program ptahydra. i can't fing this in my programs and it doesn't show up any where that i can see.

what is,and how do i get rid of it?

you got yourself a virus/backdoor/worm ...

good luck!
Andy

dunno. your puter might be . I suggest immediatly!

lotta help you genuises are

You might want to get a spy/adware scanner. One of my favorites is Lavasoft AdAware - which you can download for free...

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

just loaded and ran avg. we'll see how that worked

Try Spysweeper by Webroot.

I also use SpyBot (it's free as well):
http://www.spybot.info/

And http://www.avast.com/ for virus protection (recommended by someone here in Teener Land). Free, of course.