CrYpTiC

Agreed SSH and WGET would be an easy way. Not sure about a script running that checks email even thou that is an awesome idea and would be a killer way to do it. That would be worth looking into.

No. Personal Exp with this one has told me you have to go with a low level format or be a pest about it and run a duel boot setup. It's very hard for a windows box to get a rootkit in the MBR for grub considering it doesn't understand it. But just to chime in and say common sense works well for me. Yes about I said Personal Exp.. I have a few test VM's that I use for surfing sights that seem off. And I was stupid many years ago... "Some stupidness remains" I personally like the sand box approach to browsing toss that in a VM if you know your doing something and toss it away afterwards. No harm done to your machine and hell most modern PC and Laptops included can take a beating with 3 to 4 VM's. I know it's not the ideal way but set one copy of a fresh install of Ubuntu up in a VM "40mins max" clone it and do what ever you want. I know thats over the top what your looking for but its just something I didn't notice on the first page from the responses.

Name Robert AKA CrYpTiC Favourite game: ATM Starcraft 2 Favourite OS: Do I have to admit its Win 7 atm followed by Ubuntu 10.04 Favourite console: Xbox 360 Nationality: American Accent: English Sex: Male Race: White "Very" Height: 5'11" Build: Muscular Favourite band: Changes to much Favourite book: NA Favourite author: NA Favourite movie: To many to list can I get a top 10 please? Favourite director: NA Favourite TV Show: Stargate Universe Favourite actor: Johnny Depp Favourite actress: NA Favourite Pinup: Jessica Alba Favourite Comedian: Other hobbies: Mountain biking, learning, hacking, sleeping Car: 05 F150 screw Occupation: Sys Admin