Hello,

Take your time, I consider free / donation based programs, perfectly adequate to provide protection for the average user, so there's NO, " doom and destruction awaits you if you don't buy this rubbish program immediately " the programs I recommend, I've tested over a long period, and I'd never recommend anything I hadn't used myself, to protect my own machine,

There's a form at the bottom of this page where you can ask questions,

Replies will probably take some days, as this is only a hobby site,

And I will not laugh at any question ask

The Internet is full of nice people, wishing nobody any harm whatsoever

But with any collection of people, there's a small proportion of nasty individuals and companies, trying to exploit every possible angle for there own personal benefit

And the Internet has provided them with opportunities to exploit people by the millions,

This page just isn't large enough to cover the thousands of tricks, cons, scams,hacks etc. which take place on a daily basis, to millions of people

You can protect yourself,

The most important protection is, you,

Being aware that people are trying to exploit you, is your first defense

Being aware of how people are trying to exploit you, relies on you educating yourself

Be paranoid, they are out to get you, but don't let it totally dominate your behavior

The software protection, which is absolutely essential,

Windows update, although they can be slow in fixing problems, plugging holes etc. its important to check for updates on a regular basis

Get yourself a firewall,

Software defense must be multi layer, a single line of defense, i.e. just antivirus, just won't do whatever any antivirus, company says, about how much protection it offers, you won't truly realize this until you've used a decent firewall, (Windows XP built in firewall, is not good enough)

Anti-virus

I shouldn't need to explain about this essential piece of software, -------unless you ask ,

A common question is will anti virus software protect me against spyware, the answer is probably not, spyware is a different kettle of fish altogether

Anti spyware

Did I miss anything? Did you not understand something ?