>>>As others have said, set up and use an image backup program. Backup and Restore in some versions of Win7 includes a reasonably good image backup and system repair disc creation option. Another possibility is to do all browsing in a VM ("toilet paper computing"). The VM could be Linux for better security.
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>>>If you're not already verifiably sure of the cause of your most recent infection, you'll need to figure that out. If it was from the web, I think I've recommended FireFox with NoScript at least twice to you already; it's arguably more important than antivirus.
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>>I am actually (right this moment) looking at UT from FireFox with NoScript. I don't like the look and feel of FF (as compared to IE) but I will have to learn to love it <g>
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>Do you know how you got infected in the first place?
I think I do. Yesterday I was looking (Googling) and an explanation of a simple medical term (Expectorant) and when I click on one site IE shows a message and I clicked cancel. But it was - I believe - too late.
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