I operate two computers. One on the Internet and the other to take care of protected business and hobbies. (Photo, Music etc)

The Internet computer is Broad Band connected. I ran a firewall (Zone Alarm Pro) and Norton. Zone Alarm defeated the reason for choosing Broad Band..Speed. No matter what setting I used for security it was slow going and finally would not let me into the Net. (Kim Komando NewsLetter had an article about ZA and found it had flaws).
I no longer use a Firewall.

I post and read on only two Forums an belong to an Organ International Club. This is my only contact with the world other than trusted Web sites.

Many of my friends and some of the forum members like to share jokes that they receive. This I believe has caused the two hardrive formats I had in two years because of Virus. One Virus (name unknown) added about 100 namaes to my address book. Most were AOL address's.

I will not open any attachment that is not well known to me.

What a shame we cannot exchange thoughts freely without the fear of a Virus. A sign of the times.

Fran in Florida