"Ahh, she needs a wireless network", Karen had told me, so off I went tonight to see her friend Trisha and check out what was needed.

It turned out major surgery was needed. No up to date antivirus; a firewall turned off; loads of malware; email which doesn't work and no backup of the source of all knowledge for her business.

It's easy to see where most of her issues come from when you look to see the sites her son's been visiting. The search for MSN addins and smileys probably didn't find anything too interesting but it did come with all the added fun of 50 odd viri and lumps of malware.

After trying to fix her copy of Norton (unsupported and 3 years old) I gave up and put Grisoft on instead, turned on the Firewall and ran Ad-aware.

Three hours later having watched the footy on the TV I came back home to a trip to the Chinese at the top of the road. All up my street you could hear parties out in the gardens and beer being drunk.

The celebrations at Liverpool's win looked good on the TV as I waited for my order. "Been a great game. Where's Milan ?" asked the chap as he handed me the bag.