>>Just the usual things a pro would od: Keep a good anti-virus program active in the background all the time, *keep it updated* with the latest vaccines, watch for and *install* the latest security patches, and you shouldn't have any problems. The ones getting killed are the mom's & pops, aunts & uncles, grandmas & grandpas who run Windows right out of the box, naked, get compromised, and become a DoS launching platform without every knowing it, until their box blows up. Unfortunately, there are millions of them.
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>This is quite an interesting comment. :)

We run Lotus Notes 5.x behind a firewall at work, all incoming emails are scanned and stripped, the DNS is RH 5.0, and in 5 years I've had only one virus, SirCam, reach my workstation, but it had been neutered. A well maintained WinXX with a good firewall can be as secure as any other platform, it's just harder to make it so and it takes some $$$ and 3rd party software. I read somewhere awhile back that even MS doesn't use their own firewall/server ??
JLK