I must be the only person in these forums who not only actually likes Microsoft products, but has never had a problem with them. I use IE on daily basis and have never had any trouble with virii, trojans or anything else. I've been using Outlook for years without issue. I run eTrust ezAntiVirus and use Kerio Personal Firewall. That's it. I run AdAware, Spybot, etc and none of them report anything out of the ordinary shrug I turn my computer off each night though, which I'm told it different from America. Here in Australia we do tend to turn off the thing when it's not in use.