Never Let Your Kids Near Your PC

Those here that don't care too much for me will be thrilled to know that I have just endured a nightmare three days. It all started late on Thursday night. I had just replied to the infinitely intelligent anon sam and was going to bed. At this point number 2 son, aged 23, slightly pissed, accompanied by 3 mates and bags of indian takeaways, comes through the door. He asked me to leave the PC on because he wanted to check his email. I disconnected my ISP and went upstairs. (He and the terrorist have their own ISP and pay for it) The next morning I logged-in and made a reply on the same thread not noticing that the user name had been changed. Well, I didn't notice until I refreshed the thread. It turned out that No2 son and has mates had read the thread and decided I needed some support. (Not that I think I do) Anyway he had gone to work so I didn't find out exactly what had been going on until he came in at 6pm. A few minutes after I made my last post my PC went into self-destruct mode. It was infested with 2 different virus' and kept crashing within seconds of me re-booting. The boy said he'd only looked at his email (but I eventually found a porn site listed in the history) and admitted opening a couple of attachments from people he didn't know. Norton antivirus found the virus but could neither remove it or quarantine it, the worst one (W32.Welchia.B.worm) had migrated all over the PC. This machine has 5 hard drives, three 120GB, one 80GB and one 60GB. That's an awful lot of GB's. Two of the larger drives are partitioned giving me 8 logical drives in all. One of the 120GB drives was trashed completely and the others had to be removed from the machine and installed in another machine downstairs on which I had downloaded a fix for the virus from Symantec. It's taken me three days to get this machine back in to working order and even now it's unstable. It now has a password on it and NOBODY will use it in future. The net result is I lost a HD, a lot of sleep and was made to look a prat on the forum. Since I've been gone I see the threads have blossomed. I now have a lot of reading to catch up on, and no doubt, some replies to post. I notice that dicko has decided that he's had enough of the bear garden and has gone cap in hand to the 'nice' people. I also noticed that he had to make a big show of saying he'd 'defected', and griff couldn't resist making a snidey remark agreeing with the given reasons. As far as I'm concerned 'defected' is the right word and the associated adjective is very apt too. I wonder how long it will be before his ambition cramps the style of the egos over there?