Thanks again.

I'm truely a rookie when it comes to security, so like i said I've got some series homework to do. It seemes like there's a ton of good info to absorb on anti-online, so I am going to finish going through all the relavant post - before I do anything. - The thing I know for sure is that I've been a complete retard up to now - pretty much everything right down to my hardware firewall was/is configured incorrectly. - yikes. The only things that I assume have kept me online (mostly by luck)- are zone-alarm & ad-aware which was gettting a hell of a workout until I dropped IE & switched to firefox on sunday. Also I've started running everything through metropipe www.metorpipe.net, that seems have helped out also. Does anyone know anything about metorpipe. (I think I'll start a new thread for that one.)