Get yourself a router. D-Link, Linksys, whatever, womething with a NAT firewall, brand doesn't much matter. You'll find that most probes and such never make it past the NAT firewall. Also, of highest importance, DON'T USE OUTLOOK OR INTERNET EXPLORER. If you take some time and research this, you'll find that Outlook and IE are most responsible virus problems. Also, a hacker is someone who takes pride in learning something from scratch, the hard way. Who comes up with an elegant solution to optimize some code or solve the apparently insoluable problem with the tools at hand. A cracker is a vandal who f**ks things up. There's a big difference.