there was a choice to send the cd or not so i said "yes please"
and fester, the SYSTEM RESTORE works when you dont reformat (because you would have a point to go back to) and/or reinstall recovery CDs
and most viruses nowadays hide in your system restore folder (which virus scanners aren't aloud to scan), but you can tur off system restore and it will become scannable
sorry if that didn't really make sense to you but i'm really bad at describing things