Windows Mail contacts disappeared

[Sophy]

I attempted to forward a joke to friends today and discovered that all of my contacts had disappeared. I use the Windows Mail in Vista Home Premium. Does anyone know why this would have happened?

At the same time, I was having trouble with Internet Explorer 7. Every time I would attempt to log on I would get the message that it had stopped working and if there was a solution Windows would let me know. Thing is, it wasn't open, it wouldn't open. I finally switched to Firefox to Google these two things, and then when I went back to my RoboForm to sign into this forum Internet Explorer opened.

Spyware Doctor keeps finding this item called: Spyware.Found_By_Browser_Defender. I select to fix it and then I can immediately do another scan and it shows up again. After "fixing" this item in the scan WinPatrol will pop up with a box that says they've detected a change to my home page to: about.blank. I select NO and WinPatrol keeps my home page in place.

I also did a Quick Scan with SUPERAntiSpyware Free and it found nothing. I exited that program and did a Quick Scan with SpywareSweeper and it found only 6 low level tracking cookies.

On these spyware programs, I normally alternate using them for scans. None of them run at start up and I have all the real time protection, etc., disabled in all of them so when I do open and run them only the scanner is active. The reason for this is that they don't get along with my BitDefender Internet Security 2008.

Right now I am running a deep scan with BitDefender but don't expect it to find anything because I just ran a scan last night.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Sophy