[drtom]

As snooker says, "In my experience, the cheap routers are quite effective at thwarting attacks.".

Some of these reported flaws are so high-profile that it takes a very experienced hacker to exploit them. Whether that hacker is interested in spending a lot of time on the individual average home user is doubtful.

A little firewall router, a regular patch update on your OS and a virus scanner. Everything beyond there is bordering paranoia.

[cgk]

A little firewall router, a regular patch update on your OS and a virus scanner. Everything beyond there is bordering paranoia.

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I update with all the patch releases and have the full Norton Virus, so all I need is the router. :0 almost there. And yes, I try not to be paranoid, but I hate it when I'm browsing a website and the next minute I have 3 viruses hitting my pc, then the next day I find all kinds of extras on my browser I didn't DL.