Computer Security Scare

Like Lauren, my daughter was also an AIM addict( and the evil myspace). Our family computer had been slowing down to a crawl and I was panicking as I was in the middle of an online course. It seemed like the computer was about to crash..it would turn on but never actually boot up. It took three days of work by the computer resource specialist at school to remove a horrible number of viruses, some of which he thinks came in through kaza (sp)., and the downloading of various images that my daughter wanted to use to "decorate" her myspace page. Luckily I had saved my research and other work on a thumb drive. She is a little older and a little wiser, but we still share the same computer, so backup and protect is my mantra!