Thanks for reminding me about spywareblaster, I do have it installed on this machine but years out of date. It's quite possible I got too complacent with the xp machine. As per my posting history on this site I 1st registered 10 years ago after destroying a 4 gig HDD, I learned a lot about security after spending close to £100 on a 40 gig hdd, for an ME OS. Since then I just got so used to the xp machine, any problem just open task manager, the only real killer was system.exe kicking in randomly. Now I'm starting again with the old vista so a recommendation for a free firewall would be nice
Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 (32Bit OS)
Manufacturer - Dell (Inspiron Desktop 546 Minitower)
Processor - AMD Athlon (tm) 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ 2.70 GHz
Memory - 3072MB (3 x 1024) 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel
System Type - 32 bit
Hard Drive 500GB Serial ATA non Raid (7200Rpm)
Graphics - 512mb ATI Radeon HD 4350
Monitor - Acer P223W 22" LCD (using DVI)