[MarkL]

Yup, lots of really cool stuff that Spybot does, and you're right, as with all powerful tools, they will give you all the rope you need to hang yourself with! Same with HijackThis... Heck, I used to program in C, back in the "first edition" days of the K&R white book... Way before any C compiler had any silly stuff like "array boundery checking." It was fun to try writing something to the 100th element of a 10 element array, just to see what would happen! lol

Mark

[Diligent]

Backing up data often is important, but once you get your system to a stable state, I recommend using imaging software to either *image* the entire hard drive to DVDs, or use the imaging software to *copy* to another hard drive (they are getting cheap), or perhaps both. Keeping this form of backup off-site is another thing to consider.

I had a hard drive crash and this save me a ton of time in restoring my system.

Although Macs have few of these problems, they can still have hardware go south, so backups and images should be considered too, IMHO. :-/