The terrorists are not out there. They're right HERE...

... putting frelling adware/spyware/malware on my frelling hard drive. It's taken me the installation of:

Windows Critical Service Updates
Ad-Aware SE Personal
Spyware Doctor
Registry Mechanic
CWS Shredder
HijackThis,

at least 17 reboots (3 of them in safe mode), the deletion of edonkey2000 (never, NEVER install this), the manual deletion of certain line items from my registry, and 2.5 days to get my bloody laptop back into working order.

All this, and I haven't even installed Service Pack 2 yet. I may give myself a cooling-off period of a day or two before I do that, lest it screw something up and force me to throw my baby here through the sliding-glass door and off our seventh-floor balcony.

Hi, my name is kagey and I have anger issues. *g* But at least I know my limits.