It's not quite what I had in mind, although it is still useful. Like Tony was suggesting, this was simply a diskette that you put in your A: drive, and powered-up your pootah! I think that in essence, it "wiped" the infected MBR (Master Boot Record), and replaced it with a virus-free MBR. I might be entirely wrong in that assumption, but it was an excellent utility to own!

No, no, no!!... Do not transfer any files anywhere!! You could also be transferring the virus to your remote media, and it will simply re-install itself when you transfer the files back to your clean pc!!

Cold-boot your pc into SAFE MODE (typically, by pressing the F8 key), then run your AV program there. Before doing so, make sure that you have switched off SYSTEM RESTORE.

Once you are free of the infection, switch SYSTEM RESTORE back on again.

I remember years ago, in the age of 1.44Mb floppy disks, I has a "magic bullet" disk for such eventualities. However, try as I might, I cannot find anything remotely similar for downloading onto a usb stick or memory card!!

When I tried to access this on the office pc, TREND MICRO's security warning flagged this as a DANGEROUS SITE. Access it at your own risk!!

According to URLQUERY (www.urlquery.net) CPAFISH.COM are located in Hong Kong.

This useful site checks out website addresses, and provides reports about the site status.

If anybody gets redirected to another site, you can use this to check the legitimacy of the site you are being redirected to.

I'm rather disappointed!!... I haven't had any porn sites pop up on my netbook or my desktop!!... I think I'll report you all to the mods - seems to be a bit of favouritism going on here!!

Everything seems okay here, Rob! The team are good at rectifying these things and giving you feedback, so don't worry... In the meantime, run a malware check. If you don't already have one, try MALWAREBYTES.

Stan - don't forget to do a firmware update for your new pet!! Considering the weather conditions, I'd say it was a pretty good 1st effort!!

Laura - provided you use a lens with an identical mount (eg: Pentax K mount), there should be no problems using it. I believe however, that a lens designed for a 35mm slr is magnified by another 1/3 (or thereabouts) if that lens is mounted onto a DIGITAL slr. That is to say, a 300mm lens designed for a 35mm camera becomes a 400mm digital lens.

link

The table contained in this link is in French, but basically, the left-hand column refers to the focal length of the "35mm lens", and the other columns are the approx magnifications.

I hope this helps.

@ David Burleson - does CLICKSOR work in a similar manner to Google AdSense?? If so, I don't understand the connections with the likes of Facebook.