1 Time don't exist anymore, bought out by PC World or dixons, something like that
2 Why would the pc vendor bother, they've got your cash they do NOT care what u do with the PC, it's not there responsibility, u can't sue a gun shop because the murderer bought the gun from there
3 run an undelete programme through your machine, restore the deletes
4 Why would a pc building company expend extra cash to install hardware to protect other companies profits ie copyright
5 And this one is much more likely, run some anti vvirus saoftware, there are loads that specifically target kazaa, my shared folder. and while you're on with that it might be an idea to have a look at your outlook express folders, you will probably get a nasty surprise