<p>Viruses probably mess with the computer’s DNS and not the router’s. Router firmware is typically very proprietary unless yours is just somehow very special. Viruses usually don’t physically destroy hard drives either. They can mess up the MBR, but that’s fixable. </p>
<p>DV9700 series was one of the industry-defect-wide crap series that effed people over after 2 years …so I’m not surprised with its problems. </p>
<p>That i7 isn’t even a quad core so >.>. I don’t know but 1000 dollars seems a lot to shell out for a dual core on steroids.</p>