Connie, let me make sure I'm understanding you. When I saw the list of items flashing by at the bottom of the screen while it scanned (up to 5835 of them or something like that), I assumed those were things on the computer that it was checking. From what you're saying, apparently those are the items in the program's database that it is looking for. Since it doesn't list them in the box afterwards, apparently I DON'T have them!!
It still just finds the same 4 programs. I HAVE heard a lot of bad things about both Microsoft and the media players, so I'm not sure if I should ignore those. So far, I've just let them alone (the 4 programs I listed in my post above).
It's when I click on the name of one of those to get a description of it that a new menu item appears at the bottom - Program Description (or something like that). When I click that - it has the description of the highlighted program, but it's in a little box with a drop down arrow and all the other programs are listed there.
I take it that you're saying that it is just searching for those and that's where I could exclude some if I wanted to, but only the 4 it found are actually on my computer.
As for those notices, Netscape always tells you when you're entering or leaving an encrypted page, or when you're sending unencrypted info over the Internet. If you don't want these notifications to come up all the time, all you have to do is uncheck the box on the notification that says something like "always notify me when..."
I always put up with those. I'm quite tempted to uncheck the box, but I'm always afraid there could be an instance some day when I WOULD want to be notified, so I just tolerate them all the rest of the times.