Jason, read thru the virus threads on the forum. There are some worms & trojans to look out for. How to stop them? Keep your anti-virus programs active & make sure you have up to date virus definitions. There's some good free av programs out there. Check all incoming files/before you attempt to open them!!!!!!!!!

the guy who can't connect how did you lose everything? If you keep your setting set to default for downlding then there's no way you should have lost anything you downlded earlier. Earlier in the thread (a page or 2 back), I list a set of questions asking for details of everybody's set up & some simple tests to do. If you can answer those questions & tests & we'll see how we can help you.