If you can find £339 in your computer budget, you could get a Mac Mini. It's a drop-in replacement for PCs which just happens to be a Mac and thus immune to the ecology of crap that Windows comes with. If you can't or don't want to get one, then my advice is: (a) ditch Internet Explorer and all forms of MS Outlook (they're riddled with holes) and use Firefox/Opera and Thunderbird or similar, and (b) regularly run at least two of the following: Spybot Search & Destroy, AdAware, Microsoft Anti-Spyware. (Different programs have different blind spots.) If you're feeling particularly geeky, you could try going with Linux. It works for me. Though, all other things being equal, I'd get the Mac. -- acb