b_b is correct.
I used to do a lot with warez, cracks, serialz, etc etc etc.
Went to bookoo shady sites, dl'ed a bunch of stuff b/c I didn't know how to write the programs myself
I have crashed a few comps and learned the errors of my ways; the hard way naturally.
Eventually, I had a firewall (whatever comes with cox.net broadband, I forget), AVG (crap, I know) plus free trials of other AV software all the time (when the trial was up, start a new one with a new prog), Ad-Aware and SpyBot, totally disabled IE in favor of Opera..
Still used OE, but disabled pretty much everything you can disable for it. If I wanted to view anything, I logged into my Webmail account.
Anyone using Windows needs a heckuva lot of security, inmho.
Better Luck next time
