Nobody is immune

No, really... NOBODY is immune. When it comes to safe computing I'm one of the safest. I don't open any attachments that I'm not 100% expecting, no matter how much I want a CD Key for my favorite program I don't go to my local warez site located in the deepest, darkest corners of the net, I update my OS and my AV at LEAST once a week and I have a big, bad ass, hardware firewall between me and all the baddies. Even with all of this it's still possible for me to get a virus and it's happened. I was lucky enough to notice the viral type activity pretty quickly and it was more of a harassing virus rather than a damaging virus. Evidently during some of my internet travels I visited an infected site. Thanks to Microsoft and their sifter known as windows (lots of holes) this site was able to execute hostile code on my machine. Unfortunately during my troubleshooting and attempting to determine the issues on my machine I cleared all my temp inet files as well as cookie and history. With out this history I can't remember which site I may have gone to in order to get infected. I don't really know what else to do short of just unplugging from the internet. I have moved away from IE and am now using Mozilla in a hope that it'll be safer, which it is. I'm going to move most of my Internet options to my favorite Linux box tuxbert, and If I can find some Linux web cam software and support I'll move everything to that and this machine will become a gaming box only. Pretty sad it has to come to that, but thems the breaks.....