wow, you certainly do know your stuff.

From reading what you wrote, I am a light computer user. I only do email and surf the net, I never download stuff. maybe an occasional itunes thing.

Now about the spyware and firewalls.

I have Internet Security Suite (from Verizon). It's supposed to do EVERYTHING. That is, anti-virus, pop up, anti-spyware, etc. etc.

If I have this already doing that on my computer, why do I need spybot?

thanks so much for being so informative

Mel