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For excellent security, at no cost, and without clogging up your system with monster programs like Norton: * Grisoft AVG antivirus is free for home use and does not eat up your memory. It's also cheaper than the rest for professional office use. Go to http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1 (yes, really free and is updated automatically daily) * Zone Alarm from Zone labs has a *free* firewall for home use. Get it at http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp (when you first use this software it prompts you with a lot of questions. Be sure you understand your replies or you might accidentally stop some programs from working properly until the settings are corrected. If you really are a newbie, best ask a friend for some help here) * Microsoft have a free anti-spyware program (beta) which takes out a lot of the worst offenders (rumor has it that it also identifies and removes Norton!) Get it at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en The protection is not 100% and you might hate MS so another good and free choice is Ad-aware SE Personal edition. Get it at www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware No harm in having both these anti-spyware programs installed Someone can make a case why some expensive software that you have to buy will give you better protection, but the reality is that you are protected better than > 99.9% of home users with this set up, while using less memory than fancy programs like Norton will take from you with their wizards and fancy graphical interfaces. DON"Tt bother with pirate versions of this kind of commerical software since they will not be updated and will quickly become worse than useless DO install the windows update patches when you are prompted to by yoiur system, else you will be a little more vulnerable and more likely to be targetted by hackers Niranahm