Had a virus through either messenger or pop ups last week, Blaster worm, it came through before Norton detected it. spent an hour the other night downloading a patch for it then a programme to delete it, which has now been done sucessfully, and I haven't lost any important data. It probably would have taken a lot less time to do, but I am a novice on the computer and didn't understand the instructions :-[
Basically just hit keys and prayed :-[