Originally Posted by Gilly

I do have an external hard drive with my music and pics on it, so that should be covered.
I should have a disc that came with the computer which would say it has my windows xp on it, right? I have a bunch of discs but none that look like this. Maybe one of them is it, but can't identify it (have one for the printer, monitor, etc but none say windows xp or OS or recovery disc).

I think before I'd go the "new hard drive and new OS" I'd just replace it. Place around here, which is a small chain called milwaukee PC, which is the company that fixed my scareware, makes up their own custom PCs, they do have a base line of computers to get an idea of prices and can customize them to suit.

So far so good with it now, but I do want to get a firewall up, any suggestions on that?