Wow-- no firewall. Inconceivable. Other than that, I think you have spyware ora virus. Otherwise, why do you have all of those porn cookies?
"Wow-- no firewall. Inconceivable. "
NOT!
Look, as long as you don't have file shareing turned on and you avoid Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook even ancient
windows98 machines are quite safe. I've had one on the net for 5 years now using the Opera Browser and Pegasus mail. Its sort of an expiriment to see how long it takes to get infected. Nothing. Never one incident, and I scan it daily to be sure.
Now would I recommend doing this with XP? No way. It it not safe to hook XP up to the interenet for even 5 minutes without a firewall.
I'd recommend The Original Poster have the wiz kid Son install linux, and thereby remove any cause for worry.