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So are there any good ways to avoid this or minimize the impact? Or am I playing Russian roulette every time I surf?

I use FF with NoScript, and knock on wood have been lucky so far. My wife was not so lucky last year with the Antivirus 2011 (or whatever it was). If she got it once, she will probably get it again...

For the experts, is there a way to run a virtual environment or something to isolate the browsing? Then if it was compromised you deleted the VM and start over from another copy of the VM. Is there a way to do that, or something similar?