Having worked in companies dealing with various countries military, security has always been a prime concern.

I have found from experience that you get what you pay for, so the microsoft provided “protection” basically isn’t any real protection at all. Bluntly, if it’s free it is most likely to be pretty much useless.

If you’re going online then you need to go and pay for something over and above what comes free with your microsoft programs.

I have found that many of the commercial anti-virus protections do great deals when you puchase protection for multiple devices, so i got together with my 2 boys and their wives and we bought a 12 machine cover. It worked out to about £7 for each machine for a year’s cover.

Hi Waylander
Everything you say is true and I have been around long enough to know that, but as they say “There is no fool like an old fool” But hopefully my experience will make others aware of just how simple it is to find trouble without looking for it!