Oh god, I hope not. It started doing this a month or so after I first got it. Think that's likely? I can't find any info on Google, but you aware of any mass HD failures from factory shipped Compaq Presario SR1000 models? (Mine was shipped to me Sept 28, 2005 so that time period for date of manufacture.)

I did have Norton on there when I first got it. There were a few months of on internet, but within days of getting dial up, a downloader trojan was found. I check the Norton logs for giggles a long time ago, and found that Norton was unable to delete the infected file, saying it's access to it was denied. I was able to delete it just fine though. I can't verify with any certainty that my system in clean now, but I think it is. All the netstats I run come back "clean" (as in, nobody I'm not known to be connected to shows up). There was some other funny business going on that led to a blog with screen caps. I'll post that if you think it'll help.