If you are an XP user experiencing infections again and again, you might want to disable the Windows autorun feature. Autorun allows downloaded files to open immediately upon download. That may sound like a good thing to most of you, but what if the file downloaded is cornflicker? Not so good. Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera (my favorite for general web browsing because of the speed) download to a location on your computer which allows your autoprotect in your antivirus to catch bad-guy files.
The good news is Microsoft did disable this autorun.inf file in Vista and 7. You have to give Microsoft credit for this. It's not as convenient for the user, but in the long run it saves the user computer maladies.
Please refer to the Microsoft article below for instructions how to disable the autorun feature on your XP system.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967715/
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