What a crap day I've had.
1) I finally find an engine on ebay that is local. 1300, big valve head, rebuilt 3000 mile ago. Choice!
So 1 min to go it has only got £40 it. Whizzo, I think and place my bigger bid with 10 seconds to go. Guess what? I get a message saying the auction has ended, before the 10 seconds elapse. WTF?
I then discover that my 3.8Meg connection has dropped to 800K, so everything has slowed down including my bid. WAY TO GO BT!
2) Then I decide to have a surf to try and chill. Get a pop-up and press the wrong button. Now I cannot get out onto the internet at all because I have a trojan that gives me a security warning and tries to get me to buy their product and I can't get rid of it.
3) Now I'm stuck with this crappy lap-top that I got forfuture use with Megasquirt. I....t i....s .s....l....o...w it's almost a wood burner.
I don't know what I did to be so lucky. perhaps I was Adolf or Ghengis in a previous life. Either way I must have been a complete git!

Is it possible to down load a new(er) anti virus program to your laptop and then swap it over to the pc via disc/ethernet/what ever you have handy?

An anti virus ain,t the problem. I am currently running Symantec Corporate Client on my PC. This is a professional level AV. The malware that I have aquired didn't get past it. I got it as a result of my stupidity in a momentary lapse of concentration, because I was peed off.
Be warned fellow surfers. It only takes a moment.
The real problem exists between the computer and the chair.
Thanks for the input though Si. Appreciated.

[Edited on 4/3/08 by Confused but excited.]

In which case I hope you have a full reboot/wipe disk lying about handy.
Oh, and get super ad block next time!

just format & reinstall the thing... gets rid of all bugs and makes the computer run faster..

You shouldn't need to be that drastic, just roll it back to a previous, clean, installation.

It may just be me and my level of luck with computers, but I always seem to end up with no way to remove the things as they bury themselves. A full wipe just saves bother for me!