[andy153]

Hi Tannin, sorry if I upset you - but you do not appear to disagree with most of what I said apart from the Anti Virus software and I was trying to make it simple - coming from a Police ( 30 yrs )and Church background my only experience of computer security was in my last twelve years in the Police when I was involved in the setting up of a stand alone system for the local Police and integrating it with the Police National Computer over here. I was more used to multiple firewall protection and Military/Security Service level encryption. My job was to design database search systems for the police and to try and hack/break what others designed for them. I run both Windows XP Pro and Mac OS X on my machine and I agree that most problems come from the Windows software itself - Not wanting to enter a debate - simply put MAC is safer - and as most of us here run Adobe Photoshop or other Photographic applications - LINUX and other OS's are a non starter for the most up to date programs.

But I do maintain that most people infect their own computers by not following the simple rules regarding Spam/pishing emails, p2p protocols and opening discs that have not been virus checked. They forget that the internet and their own computer is like a sewer - what you get out depends upon what you have put in it.