Four and a half hours - yes, 4 hrs and 30 min- WASTED by bastard ad/spyware crap program silently(invisibly) installed without my permission. Worse, without the permission or knowledge of the owner of the original artwork package I was trying to download. So now, 4 1/2 hours later, my PC is once more clean. HijackThis confirms it. And even more important, the horrified and mortified artist is now on the phone with her hosting service asking them what the hell is going on. Then she says she intends to change hosting services over the weekend.

What a nightmare.

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