The Security Mentor

If you follow just a few of my top-priority recommendations, how well off are you?

You'd be running Service Pack 2 of Windows XP. You'd surf the web with Firefox. You'd have some anti-spyware programs installed.

Another writer(who mostly reports on Voice over IP) set up a computer for his wife's parents just like that, and wrote:

Today, the cable company showed up at my in-laws place to install their new spiffy broadband connection with the cable company. Apparently, the tech who was there to check their computer to make sure it "met the requirements" was rather pleased with how the computer was set up. It had XP SP2, Spybot, Ad-aware, Mozilla Firefox as the default browser, and they couldn't find IE (it's there, just not the default browser). To quote them, it was the best computer they've looked at.

Make a few simple changes and you, too, can own the best computer a professional technician has ever seen. And sometimes all you need is to be better protected than the other targets.