Reply #4: Make sure you get a good antivirus and fire wall up . . .

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first thing to do. I got AVG antivirus and Comodo Firewall (both free versions) and I may just go all the way Comodo in the future but the AVG Free seems to do the trick pretty good. People tend to go with the free-trial time on McAfee or Norton when they get a new computer and I don't know about McAfee but Norton was a major pain in the @$$ and not completely reliable when I last had it.