yeh thanks alot for your help... i disabled the trackers software for nexus and all is back to normal and have started updating all my mods... checked a few of the url,s of the trackers and yes advertises are the bulk of them... as well as google... i will work thru them and allow nexus as a trusted site thru my tracking software...with a few caveats on a couple of the trackers i saw... should be all good going forward. interesting as it was only the downloading that was affected and all other aspects of the site where fine... anyway once again thankyou and back to modded gaming it is...