RE: Home network problem

I just recently put my turntable in the garage sale.  It didn't sell but
a few of my LPs did.  :)  And no, I'm not THAT old; I'll hit 40 next
summer. :)

Here's one way to do safe browsing:
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/vm/browserapp.html.  But it's massive
overkill for pretty much anyone who's not a techie. I haven't tried it
yet, but I do want to play with it one of these days.

Yes, performance may degrade a little with the layering of apps, but
with the right applications it should be minimal.  My ancient firewall
is Tiny Personal Firewall V2.  Tiny became Kerio.  The whole product
fits on a floppy as I recall.  Very small, tight code and I never
noticed an impact on performance.  Besides, most PCs have cycles to burn
(even if they aren't the latest 3+GHz units) and even losing a few
percentage points of performance isn't going to be noticeable.

Reloading Windows is OK, but again you're going beyond what the typical
home user is capable of doing successfully.  Also, note that MS may get
annoyed with the repeated product activations.  And also note that you
could become infected with malware the very first day after the rebuild
and be running a compromised machine for months until you wipe/reload
again.

Well, this is a fun coversation.  While responding I'm waiting on our
830 to finish a 21 save so I can migrate development over to our i5.  At
library 136 of 254...