Thank you all for the replies.
Good news - All is back to normal on her mac.
It appears that in resetting Safari and cleaning the browser cache that it caused a temporary slowdown in loading all web pages.
If you found a bogus program on a friends computer - cleaned all traces of it - and...
Update:
I should have tittled this thread "Issue with Malware?". I have read all the stickies related to virus' , posting , etc. I know enough to never download a bogus program, but I am stuck trying to fix an problem that her computer is now having. I realize that mac's do not have the...
My fiance' has a powerbook G4 that has worked perfectly up until now. Yesterday she got on a website that had been compromised by "Antispywaremaster". She thought the download looked "official" so she went ahead and tried to download it. BIG MISTAKE! By the time I found out what had happened...