Thanks. Yeah, the area is still greyed out. very disconcerting. At that point, I call it a virus. Sort of a non-spreding virus, but it's just as invasive. This sort of thing should be illegal (or is it?).

By the way, I spoke too soon on it being a popup specifically. it's not really a popup, I just got a message asking to load a language pack (the site that was inserted as my start page appears to be Korean or something). Anyway, it's annoying. Oh well.