I will take into consideration all the information that you have given me. I was wondering what your personal setup is? What do you use?
I was also wondering what you thought of programs like ZoneAlarm and I believe Black Ice? Are any of these better then the firewall that comes built into windows?

Also I am currently running: Spybot Seach/Destry, Adaware, Norton Anti-Virus, and Sercurity Pack 2 for Windows. All are up to date to my knownledge.

thanks for your help thus far, you have been very informative.

todd