All of you need to be very careful which sites you visit. I have been down since sometimes Tuesday! # different virus' that I downloaded from a "freebie site" listed by someone here on CUTE! I guess I got very lucky that it did not cost a bundle to get it back up and running ..this time. Last time was a few yrs back and I stayed down for 3 months plus. I do know that I downloaded from a couple of sites that I had never been to before. It was just a few minutes after downloading a Christmas design that my computer locked up and I all I could get was someone trying to force me to buy their CLEANER to get my computer back on. Yes, I do have Microsoft and it was up and running but I had no access except to the False security that was trying to get me to buy their security. My son could not get here until around 10:30 last night. Thank goodness that I spent the money yrs ago to send him to school for computer tech!! We were still not sure that it was fixable until he came by this morning to check to see how much damage had been done. He unplugged something in my computer had Microsoft ran for about 7 hrs. It was showing this morning that it had 3 trojans installed. Microsoft cleaned it and he plugged it back up normally and I have been trying to catch up today! He did restore systems back for several weeks and I have been cleaning up my desktop most of the day! I have racked my brain trying to figure out which site it was but I think I lost as much as the computer did! I will be alot more selective before I go to every site from now on! If it is not a regular site I use, I will not be going there!

I have 8 birthday gifts in December for family and longtime friends as well as tons of Christmas gifts also. I am very behind right now because I have also been too sick to do very much. I know I am going to be even "sicker " when I realized just how many designs from sets that I missed the last two days! Ho!Ho!Ho! At least it did not cost me $$$$ for a new computer or expensive fixes! My son actually saved me from alot of expense and all I had to do was buy him some fuel for their car to get him back home. His wife had left it on empty when she parked it in the driveway! Well....here goes. I am almost afraid to collect the designs!