If your with Eircom, I hear you'll get a nasty mail through the door telling you stop pirating. I think NTL are ok.

As mentioned once you have decent anti virus/ anti malware i.e AVG, avast, Norton, McAfee you'll be fine (In most cases ). Sure most of the computers on the internet are owned by hackers anyway.. sure what's one more haha

I can assure you of this. I do a bit of part time security testing for a few of the main browsers

http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...ows_kernel_bug

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