Before you smutty guys chip in, Trojan virus not condom! It was horrible felt very violated - still dealt with it.....i hope!

Aww, hope it's all fixed now

fixed....fingers crossed! And sorry about your fun, maybe you could talk about worms baggiebhoy!!!
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When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

Don't feel bad. Even the best of us get them. With all the game patches that i need to get and software updates there are bound to be a few that get by the recognition system of the scanners. How can you protect against the virus if you have no definition for it yet? The things was written this morning and by noon its been picked up. By then half the planet could have been infected. That is why i wont pay for virus scanning as this shows all scanning software as useless. What you really are paying for is for somebody to find the thing in the first place and give you the easy means to get rid of it.

It does help to give windows itself updated as the vulnerabilities in an unpatched Xp system are staggering. If i run into something that i can't get rid of I wait till the fix is posted and do it manually. Still dont have to pay for it. I dont recommend this to everyone but in my case it works as i know what i am doing. The last trojan i got was in 2002. It took the community the better part of six months to find it so i am not that confidant in the system yet.

Owned

I use zonealarm for a firewall and antivir for my virus checking. They're all free and do a pretty good job i think

I'm not familiar with zone alarm, but as an experienced engineer I'd recommend 'avast' anti virus free edition, register and you'll get 18mths 100% free, it can even deal with the likes of root kits 'cloaked malware' something that most other free av programs are stumped with.

just my penny's worth

I use: no antivirus! I only visit trusty sites...anti-spyware though is a must!