JW> I was nailed by some kind of nasty malware that has knocked out my machine
 JW> for over two weeks. Now I've been computing since 1986 and never ever had
 JW> a virus or any other similar problem before: I use a pop up killer,

I have heard this from a few more in the US.
Must be something new. Don't you have a firewall?
My son did a reinstall on a machine and as soon he connected to Internet
it was full of bugs. He now have to redo it and connect through a firewall.

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