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Originally Posted by trfour
We all need to tell our ISP's to get more involved in and protecting their paying customers from security issues out on the net these days.
We are all paying them Good money, ( in fact OutRageously So ) , and they are leaving us all to the Wooleff's, so to speak.
Besides us needing to check out all of the great security sites out on the net every day to keep up with the security issues, and keep our computers up to date with a gazillion patches that come out every Too Infrequently, and may I add, in between and faster than Automatic updates can keep up with.!
Now, If the Internet Providers expect us to do all of the heavy lifting about this issue, We should be payed $60.00 to $100.00 a month!
I do not think that I have to remind anyone that Our Buck in this country has long and since left Our pockets!
I do not know about the rest of you, Wallets are Extinct and Gone the way of the Dinosaur over here. I Do Not carry one any more because I do not have anything left to put in one...
The good news is that purses will always remain in vogue. Listen Up! 
Terry
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It is not your ISP's job to protect you from yourself, especially if you choose to go online with a security deficient machine.
Even when I used PC's, my "Internet security" was a $100 router and common sense. I never had a need for virus and ad-ware scanners and all sorts of other funky software to "clean" my computer.
Here are the three best bits of advice for you:
1) Forget about software firewall junk from Norton or McAfee, get a router/firewall device from Linksys, Dlink, Netgear, etc.
2) Don't use Internet Explorer. Ever. Chrome, Opera, Safari and Firefox all offer better security and generally better performance.
3) Change your Windows theme or color-scheme to something other than the default (this makes those bogus "your computer is infected" trojan pop-up windows easier to spot)