Thank you for sharing. Monthly? Weekly? <g>. My daughter will be lucky if I do annual <g>.

>On her machine I use Comodo firewall, SpySweeper, Avast, Adaware, and Eblaster. I use Ghost to create the image (I make a monthly image of hers and a weekly one of mine).
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>>I did install AVAST AV on her PC last time I reformatted but no fire wall. I am thinking about buying a Ghost of some other image program to to store the hard drive image, in case I have to rebuild it again. This is a good idea. But in a few months she will be going to college and wants me to buy her a Mac.
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>>>I warned someone here about it for that very reason (it may have been Jay). I have a firewall, adware, and spysweeper setup specifically for that purpose. I also have an image of her harddrive that I can use if necessary to go back to a healthy clean state.
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>>>>>My 16 year old did the same until her friends tuned her in to limewire. Now it's iTunes for listening and limewire for, well, you know :o)
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>>>>I don't know what limewire is but my 17 year old daughter said she got some kind of virus from it that disable use of Internet/browser completely. Now I have to reformat her drive and reinstall everything from 0. It happened already 2 times; seems like ever 6 months she gets some kind of virus. She says she probably caught it from limewire.