Ema, You need one good AV and one good firewall on your computer. AVG for AV and Zone Alarm would satisfy those. Malwarebytes is a good one to run. Works with other anti-mailware. See http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php Woody ========================= Ema609@aol.com writes: Woody I just downloaded avg and malaware on my sons machine Do I need Zone alarm also. Ema oops. I failed to state that I use free AVG and Zone Alarm on my laptop. Woody