Hi Wayback

I guess that you are a novice eager to use the Internet and gnutella network but keep your computer safe and protected, which is an admiral way to be because far too many novices do not think about protection.

OK, first thing to tell you is that there is no such thing as 100% protection and the best safety app you can have is your own common sense.

That said, Norton 360 is a reasonably good product as it has both anti-virus and firewall apps included but always remember to keep your AV's definitions up to date. An out of date AV is less than useless, a lot of novices let their subscription lapse and/or use very old (outdated) AVs and falsely feel that they are protected.

I would also suggested that you get two or three anti-spyware apps, such as a) Spybot, b) Ad-Aware, c) Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, d) SUPER AntiSpyware, e) Spyware Blaster, all these are free and there are others but these are the ones I use.

However, there are malware out there that will cripple your AV, re-write part of your registry and render themselves undetectable to your other protective apps, this is where you need your common sense to avoid such problems.

I hope I've given you enough for now to think about.


UK Bob