Removed viruses now cannot connect to Internet Explorer - Pl

Actually yeah you probably will if you uninstall it. Okay, don't uninstall it, just install the newest version over the top, it will overwrite the old version, so you won't lose anything.

that's worked and I can get firefox working, thank you. The only annoying thing is that most of the work I do is on IE and I need to get IE going.

I tried doing the same thing for IE by installing IE8 but still no joy. Strange that it's let firefox work and not ie.

Again thank you so much for your help so far.

Hmm, not too sure what that problem is. Right click on the IE icon (It's IE 7 or 8 right?) and select the No Add-ons option, does IE run okay without add-ons?