[virus five]

I think most people get viruses from downloading useless things that they don't need.

Programs, files from untrustworthy sources.

I, myself, used to come across this webpage every now and then that was linked from another page...every time I hit it, my virus scan would pop up and tell me the name of the nasty virus it just blocked from eating my hard drive.

Also, don't download email files from unknown sources. Some people are on a hundred mailing lists and can't keep track of all the emails they get.

-NEVER enter your email address on a porn site, or any other site that will sell your address to spammers.
-Try a good email server that has good spam guards. Gmail (Google's mail server) has been working great for me so far. If anyone wants to join, I have around 50 invites.