Thank you for noting that it's a <i>Windows</i> computer virus, not one of those menacing <i>malware</i> viruses the media tells everyone, even Mac and Linux users, are going to destroy their lives.<p>Note that even though Macs and Linux boxes can certainly get viruses (<a href="http://virus.bartolich.at/virus-writing-HOWTO/_html/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://virus.bartolich.at/virus-writing-HOWTO/_html/index.ht...</a>), statistically speaking, they absolutely will not. There's something else going on with Windows (cultural, baroque system interface, something) that allows a flood of malware.