"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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Norton what? The big fat do-everything suite? I use just their AV program.
Never a problem. As far as a firewall, the one provided with Windows does
not detect nasties attempting to contact the outside world from within
your machine. Neither does the one provided by your ISP.


The answer to that is simple. I don't have anything on my computer that I
want to protect from the outside world. I don't keep credit card info on it
.... and if someone wants to follow my keystrokes to see where I go on the
'net, I am sure they will quickly become very bored.

I also "disconnect" from the server whenever I am not using the computer. I
think that practice, by itself, has prevented many problems.

Eisboch