Well that was fun. Steam account was hijacked and a rogue antivirus and rootkit installed by uncle torrence. I'll have to be careful what gifts I accept from him in the future. Backup, format, reinstall sure is fun!
Restore points are actually very useful. If you have separate partition/external HDD and you set up restore points, reformatting becomes a thing of the past.
This week I'm working on trying to find a program for Windows or OS X that will allow me to use two mice with a cursor for each of them. I plan on giving the Ubuntu guys a suggestion.