WOW!! I had no idea all those sharewares were illegal! Thank God i am too scared to try them! Anywho, heres my problem,I need step by step instructions on how to completely purge my system and start fresh. I have an xp and its gone berserk!Well maybe,anyway,Ive been having problems logging on to the net and when i finally do connect,i can't browse.It blinks me back to my desktop and i have to start all over again.I called my isp server(several times) and they have to walk me back thru the setup proccess before i am able to use this hunk-of-junk for anything.They finally got tired of me calling so they told me it was my equipment that was faulty and that i needed to call their tech support.Which i did do, and they told me if it connects at all in any way to the net its not the equipment and that it may be a virus.So he was sweet enough to copy me that avg (for free) and saved me $45.00.i ran the program and it indeed found a slew of viruses called trojan horses and copied the infected file to a virus vault,but its still doing the same dern thing!!I dont know much about computers but i figure if i start over,it might fix the problem.What do you think, would that do the trick? Thanks a bunch....babbee