alright thanks alot...i used the mcafee free scan that it said to use and found the virus under my documents and settings under incomplete that had alot of limewire stuff in it. i right clicked and deleted that so does that mean its gone or not?. i have trend micro pc-cillin so im going to run a scan on that and hopefully ill have no viruses i really hope i got rid of this thing because if i ruin this new laptop my mom is gonna kill me...thanks for the help and the link to that topic it really helped