I don't understand how anyones computer could be "destroyed" by this virus. Unless you have no anti-virus (or an extremely bad one) and no firewall whatsoever. I visited auctiva several times and avast caught it upon entry every time. I continued to use auctiva not knowing the virus was coming from auctiva and still came out just fine. Avast is free at www.avast.com, and so is AVG last I knew (I don't know their website). BTW my computer is a 4 year old emachines from walmart running on dial up with AOL.