Computer Gurus

[Matt]

Originally Posted by AndyL

Personally I can't stand any of the current commercial offerings - www.avast.com completely free - and way better than nortons or mcafee...

It'll handle your day to day needs - add in spybot search and destroy - and you're pretty much solidly protected.

That's some solid advice, right there. Your router/firewall will protect you from most active attacks, largely because they won't be able to target your machine's IP address, but you still need anti virus and local firewall to protect you from all the passive attacks (software/browser exploits).

[midgetwaiter]

This is wireless right? Make sure you enable your wireless encryption.