Making your Windows OS more secure and improving your privacy online is an awkward enough process given the sheer number of things that can be done to improve it. TechSpot"s guide to Windows Online Security & Privacy will cover many of such known solutions for various popular applications which should make your system more secure as well as less prone to viruses.
This guide has been prepared to be aimed at Windows 2000/XP users, though a lot of the stuff contained also applies to earlier versions of the OS, in addition to Internet Explorer & Outlook Express.