Originally Posted by: purei'd need to tell my dad, and my dad knows 10 times more about computers than i, and i know much about computers. so if i tell him i got a virus on it, he'll say what's to stop me from getting a virus on an even better computer?

If you have Virus protection program, then disable it and then go for the virus. Then tell your dad your computer wasn't running right with the protection on and that with the new computer, there wont be any problems.