You keep hearing about the dangers of the Internet - nastiest with names like my Doom and Autorun.ini are supposed to be waiting for you to make one misstep on the Internet, and they latch onto you, to make a nuisance of themselves. Sure, we've all had an infection or two that sometimes the antivirus software that we paid top dollar for did not take care of, but if you do get infected, how bad can it be? Sure, Trojan horse virus infections can in theory the vacuum your bank accounts dry and all, but those things never seem to actually happen, do they? The companies that make antivirus software would have to correct you on that one. They have been to China, to Eastern Europe, to Russia, places where hacking and virus-making skills seem to be taught on the schoolyard, passed from friend to friend. And they are all after stealing your data, for pocket money. If they were to steal your credit card information and use it, wouldn't they get arrested or something? It really is very di