My son uses my desk top, I use my laptop. Well there is a nasty virus on it now (desk top) and I can't even use the recovery disk. Guess I'm gonna have to take it in and have it debugged or get a new hard drive.

Thankfully my laptop is clean!

smack him......lol j/k

How old is your son? I probably would find a way to make him pay for the repair. Even an elementary age child can work it of for you.. By the way this was the only kind of punishment that worked for my oldest son. It also is "real life" discipline. By the way, my children worked of fines at arate of $1.00/hour.

It came from no where.

It says trojan, worm, email virus. The only email he opened was from his lawyer. Grrrrr!!!! It listed 25 viruses! Boy something sure got it good.

And people wonder why I don't let them use MY pc! :x

I HATE it when someone uses my computer!!!! I thought I was the only one! My DD used mine over the weekend last summer.....ever since then I've had ALL kinds of offers that I would NEVER take up! She got onto a dating site and I told her if she must have been in a porn site because of the offers! She wasn't -- I was sewing right next to her....but still!!!!!!

If your son goes to UTUBE it may have come from there. Utube is notorious for spreading viruses.

I had one come in a Facebook message and went immediately and got Norton and installed on every computer in the house.

You need a good anti-virus once you've managed to clean up the mess. AVG has a free version that I think works well.

I also like Spybot and Ad-Aware to get rid of spyware some sites will stick on you. Free versions are available of these, too.

I wouldn't use Internet Explorer as my browser unless there's absolutely no way a site I absolutely NEED won't work with anything else (and I'm much more likely to send the site a snidegram about lousy page design that fails to comply with HTML standards and find a way to avoid that site). IE is notorious for security holes.

I like Firefox (especially with NoScript, Adblock, and Flashblock installed for safety), but there are other browsers with good security reputations out there (I've heard good things about Safari and maybe Google Chrome).

I think it came from firefox, at least that's what it said, that there was a virus on it. He wasn't going on sites that you would think were infected, so I can't really blame him. He's an adult and responsible.

I had that happen when I was browsing google once.

Er, unless you downloaded a contaminated install file, Firefox probably wasn't it. I've heard of quite a few viruses being transmitted by ads on Web pages, so I'd be looking there first unless someone using the computer is doing a lot of program installs or downloading a lot of stuff.