John - sorry to hear about your computer woes. We were invaded by several worms in our older computer this past week. I'd run Spybot Search & Destroy, Ad-Aware, Norton Antivirus etc. It continued so I ran them all again in safe mode, cleaned out whatever I could find in the registry that didn't belong there, and tried system restore, too. Unfortunately system restore failed - the computer went down as it finished restoring. Recovery was not successful, so we sent it out to our local Computer Doc. It was a mess and needed a complete reformatting of the hard drive and reinstallation of Windows XP; she did save most of the data files (music, documents - though I have those saved elsewhere - and our "keepers" mail.) It comes home on Monday, with additional security software. The problems likely came from one of the kids linking to something their friends send, in spite of me telling them for the umpteenth time not to download anything or click on links or open attachments.
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