>>BTW, I got some answers from the first site - the Upload speed is the same as yours, but the Download about 10 times less - wondering why.
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>(1) Virus
>If you have at least vista - do a clean install + all progs needed (office, )
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>After each install , make an image backup
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>Put all your data on another drive (eg D:) also sql server databases - except for sys related
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>If anything fails - you can restore an image [ then windows updates since, etc]
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>I have posted something like this to Cecil Champenois
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>I've been running without a virus scanner since vista - no problems - what sites do you visit ?
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I don't want to do re-install - I don't keep all the CDs around in one safe place... :(

I personally visit only technical sites, but when my son goes to my computer, he visits lots of soccer related sites and also some Japaneese animation movie website which I believe is a culprit, because it opens several popups...

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>(2) try another server