[ Browsers ] My left navigation bar was too shallow with FireFox. Should be fixed now. FireFox? Yes, Firefox is a replacement browser and using such would secure your computer, simple as that. As you know the default browser that comes with Windows is called MSIE (Microsoft Internet Explorer). Not to confuse you too much but Microsoft has three separate built in functions called "Explorer". We'll call them functions for now for sake of clear communication. The three functions of Explorer are 1)Internet Browser, 2)File System Mgr and 3)Shell. Microsofts goal was to create, for the user, one interface of these three functions. The sad part is that people lose an understanding of their personal system. One does not know the difference of the file system mgr versus browsing online. Maybe that is what Microsoft wanted to create? With that... Explorer allows malicious actions to happen on your computer like unwanted Ads and Spyware. You know those annoying little windows and web sites that come up on their own when you either turn your computer on or launch your Explorer. Say launching your Explorer to check your Hotmail account. Well thank those to Explorer! An interest article about problems with using a Hotmail account. If you need to clean your system I'd suggest the following applications; Ad-aware Spybot - Search & Destroy FireFox Absolute StartUp Tweak Now