Will the sellers be honest enough to give you all the money they drain from bank accounts?

That ad makes me think the only one making any money from MS research is the crack dealer...

Bottom line, if your system has a sudden dramatic change in behavior for no visible reason, wipe your drive and reinstall windows. There are nasty things now that don't show up as a process, mearly using the windows kernel to spawn another thread to do whatever it wants.

Backup your data and do the safest thing. I usually run windows inside VirtualPC which means only using it for the programs that *require* windows, not for general browsing and stuff.

Can I call the feds when I get lost and find out where I'm at?