You could always 'upgrade your cooling' and then give her your 'old stuff' :D
My problem is 180 degrees the other way. MY GF is not into computers and as long as they turn on 'everything is fine'. She use to get upsed when i modded a case, upgraded a part, or bought something new. After...
While it is annoying there is a easy fix, Just change your DNS server to a public one.
One can hope that they will decide to actually try to have good PR and give everyone a credit towards their bill. But then again you can hope one hand and shit in the other.......
There is No need to pay for any spyware/virus removal software. Just use the free apps listed here, and use safe surfing habbits (mabye this topic could be a sticky????) an ounce of prevention goes a long way.
I have had a few slip past it. Because it is free the updates are a little slower but it still works well.
If your system is pretty secure I would not be to worried about it. I have kids and a GF that don't pay attention to what they DL so it would not always catch the newer viruses out...