If you're running Microsoft's latest OS, you owe it to yourself to drop in on Steve Gibson's website. He's one of the world's foremost computer security experts. The man knows what he's talking about!

I must stress the importance of this to anyone who has an XP machine connected to the Web.

Go to http://grc.com/ and follow the links to SocketToMe and SocketLock. Your computer's health depends on it!