holy piss u guiyyss i completely forgot about this topic
i already reformatted, its all set and everything is fine, and i was considering a reformat from the beginning anyways
also, Amoston, not to rant you out because i dont mean to do that, im just lettin you know the following things
-im not spending any money on anything. like im serious, NOTHING, not a thing, otherwise i might follow some more of your advice. im 16 and i dont have any income comin my way atm so im not spending anything. this seems to cancel out some of the stuff you were talkin about, or at least it seems, considering i wouldnt know what to say about where i stand with my computer knowledge, but i know i can get by with most software issues and other things. anyways.
-i ALWAYS use firefox. nothing else. its the best and i bet you know it better than i do.
-i already picked up the 2 programs that C-zom suggested, im just gonna avoid norton altogether from now on. im happy with what i've got and if this isnt enough then i might have something extreme on my hands. but thats for another day
-i HAVE to back stuff up. i feel horrible if i lose everything i had worked so hard getting
-idunno where this point fits in up there, i seem to have left this out, but this is my own laptop and no one else has access to it because i dont let them have it. i didnt expect anyone to know that without me telling them and i didnt rly say anything about it. also, i have no child, and my only sibling has her own laptop, and my parents have their own comp. so even if i allowed access, no one would bother with it.
i just wanted to respond to all of your hard work typing that stuff up. not that typing is hard work >_>
and to conclude, im positive the viruses were due to a few torrents i was using to get the full Spore version for PC cause i didnt want to spend any money, not even just $10 (back to the not spending money point). i might decide to wait for my friend to buy so i can rob him of his CD or just buy it myself. but i am not using torrents for games ever again, not after this experience. >_>