This worked for me: Take a really sharp knife and carefully scrape away the insulation on a section of the wires between your computer and the router. I like to take some duct tape and make a closed loop with the sticky side out. I stick one side of the loop to a flat surface and then stick my wires to the exposed sticky side. This does a pretty good job of keeping the wires secure. You'll then need to develop a quark microscope capable of recording video (I had one but I misplaced it when I moved out of my old apartment). Aim the scope at the exposed wires and hit the record button (mine was red). Type out an email containing every possible character and send it through the wire as your control case. Use this data to translate the electron patterns in the video into discernable information. Monitor the video for several hours. If you see the word "girth" in any outgoing data, you can be pretty sure you've got yourself a bonafide (no pun intended) botnet. If you find a botnet in your system, all you need to do is cut the exposed wires and it won't be able to talk to the internets anymore.

Damn. I just blew my last paycheck on hookers 'n blow, assuming I wouldn't have to cover my mortgage next month. Thanks for nothin'.

I bet the rub on version would have a pretty high success rate.... say no more, say no more.

I bought a boxed copy of Vista Ultimate at a silent auction. It was good thing too, because I've used the repair utility included in Ultimate to battle BSODs on several systems in my office running OEM versions.