DAVID F. FARKAS wrote: > OK Windows Wizards... I'd appreciate your help. > > I have a Celeron box running Win XP which picked up some spyware. One > symptom has been random crashes / reboots. Using Spybot in Safe Mode > several times has improved things. I used to use AVG Anti-Spyware (formerly "Ewido"). It looks like it might have been integrated into AVG Anti-virus: http://free.grisoft.com/ You could also try Linux: http://www.ubuntu.com/ http://www.xubuntu.com/ It works great for Web browsing, Office documents, etc., especially on older machines. No viruses on Linux...