"Jeff Findley" wrote in message news:gd87p2$cmi$1@ger.gmane.org... > However, our three XP boxes at home have all been fine. I believe that's > because firewalls and anti-virus programs have gotten better over the > years and they are perhaps better integrated into XP than Win98SE. That is, until this weekend. :-( My daughter installed some sort of "dress up program" on the kids' PC and it got some "XP Antispyware 2009" application installed. This thing is very nasty. It installs fake spyware and then runs a "scan" and tries to get you to pay them to fix the spyware they installed. Those bastards! I finally gave up and re-installed XP. Of course, that's why the kids have a PC separate from mine, which I use for work, and my wife's, which she uses for pictures and non-work related projects. Right now the kids will have to suffer without a PC since they're not touching mine or my wife's without supervision. Jeff -- A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. -- Einstein -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist