Copy your hard drive, while it is still clean

I've had a rough week, a landslide of people calling me with malware.  In particular, crappy programs that claim to "speed up" your computer.  I will not mention them by name, but if it is on your system, you know it, because there is a pop up window up already or one coming telling you that this wonderful program has detected thousands of errors........ You get the picture.  A different way to handle the problem would be what if you had a perfect copy of your drive before all this hell broke out.  It is possible.  Try DriveImageXML, free for home use.  It can make an exact copy of your system, save it and allows you to restore your system to that point, whether you are in Windows or not.   Of course, if your computer is already compromised, this is moot, but if not, give it a try.