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Current car is paid off, and has a book value of approximately 3500-4000 (at most). Current motor vehicle inspection (required by law) will expire in 19 months, at which point the car will be uninsurable without further repairs. Suggested repairs total more than the car is currently worth ($5500 for the recommended repairs). Essential repairs for the 19-month period are unknown, but are probably only in the $200 range barring any more degradation. Fuel economy is about 60% of a new car.

The course of action appears to be to perform essential maintenance on the car and wait out the 19 months, then scrap the car, while simultaneously saving up for a replacement car.

Any agreements / dissension / third options?

Having 20 years of computer experience behind me, I'm a little embarrassed. I believe I ran an untrustworthy program a few days ago, and Norton detected a Trojan.Dropper. It appeared to clean *most* of the infection (i.e. removed the changes to \CurrentVersion\Run) but I still get pop-ups to a site called "acaiprodetox.com" when the computer goes into idle mode. 'Anybody have any removal tips? (Currently using WinXP with IE7)