Ok, there are bad guys out there, makeing viruses, adware etc. that can give us home users probelms.

So what to do?

Now I have a software firewall to protect the pc from attacks from the net. It should block viruses like the DCOM RPC Virus ?

Then I update all winupdate critical patches, to get rid of all programming errors billy boy made. I keep visiting winupdate daily, they will find more errors wount they ?

Also installed a AV (antivirus) and keep it up to date frequently.

From "Local Area Network Properties" I removed QoS and Microsoft client&server services, in case someone discovers a security hole in those. Now I only have the TCP/IP protocol listed there.

I looked through the services list, and put all services I think I do not need on manual.
Still there are 28 services on automatic and 32 services running at boot up.

I run msconfig and unchecked all exept AV from the startup tab.

Finaly im setting IE security to HIGH, and add needed sites into trusted sites, that I set to MEDIUM.

I run AdAware now and then also.

Question is, what else can I do?
Is there other nice progs other than AV and FW to run?

Plese tell me what you have done to protect your pc from the bad guys.

Thanks