can't wait to be part of this community

i would like to start by saying thank you. had a malware problem with a customers computer and google lead me here and i was able to get to the bottom of it by reading about similair problems (.exe association).

i would rate myself with computers somewhere around highly experienced. it's been about 17 years now, was online before there was an internet (anyone else remember dialup BBS').

i will mainly be here for the Malware and Virus Removal help......i have worked on friends and customers computers (small local paper ad) for a few years now, but recently have been getting nothing but malware infected machines. i've never gotten these problems myself and don't understand how people do, so i have little knowledge on the tricks the "hackers" are pulling these days.

i have never installed an antivirus/anti spyware program, have never been infected and i really want to know how the common computer user is getting these things so i know what to tell my friends/customers. i know windows almost inside and out and can remove most of these, but i don't know what to say to people about staying clean and they don't ever know how they got it.

guess that is a long enough intro lol. thanks all

-Matt