Antivirus - not a tough chore

I've recently been getting a lot of viruses sent to me. Since I'm not an idiot, I don't open every attachment sent to me (which is a good reason to avoid Outlook Express since it does that all by itself), and I run my antivirus updater regularly so I'm relatively safe.

What is wrong with the rest of you morons? I know there are some LJ users that are infected with Klez, because you idiots have been sending it to me. What's truly insidious about some of the newer virii is that you can't tell who sent you the damned thing because they spoof the headers. All I know is what machine it came from (usually AOL - go figure).

For those of you that are unsure of your antivirus protection, go get Norton, pay the 30 bucks and run it religiously. You know what Klez will eventually do to your computer? Erase every single file. You know when Norton began protecting against it? November of 2001. Yet it's the most common virus on the net right now. How can you be online in 2002 and not have an updated antivirus program running? How dim can you be?

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Userpic Tutorials

I've put up a new tutorial for budding userpic designers - transparent layers.
This is the method used to make the following userpic:


I used Photoshop, but if you're using Paint Shop Pro, you should be able to adapt the concepts to the different menus.

Let me know if there are other tutorials that may be helpful.