tensai: did it say what possible virus? Or have they turned completely frigging homo these days like I suspect they did.

Everyone should have antivirus software. It's a must on the net these days. Antivirus and firewall software both, preferably. It's seriously worth it to pay the 30 or 40 bucks for mcaffee or norton or whatever if you can't find any other way to go (even though both mcaffee home and norton's end-user offerings are craptastic). You might consider trying housecall ( http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ ) since it doesn't seem like the sort of autosoddomistic crap that I think symantec's has become. If you can figure out what virus it is, you should be able to find free removal tools for it.

There are free antivirus programs out there.... the ones I can think of off the top of my head are Avast! and AVG. Avast! has a signup process, I'm not sure about AVG's. But you'll probably need to figure out what virus it is that's interrupting installers before you do that. Hence housecall [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img].

Let us know how it goes, and good luck.