Thanks Billy, I went into my Norton 360 and the stealth ports were already blocked for me. I went through all the settings for various options with 360 and found I was really secure. Although I also have malwarebytes anti malware, super antispyware professional, pc eraser, adblock, arcsoft total backup and a few others. Fortunately all these programs work together without any problems. I did download the encrypted key scrambler and it's working fine. I am still using my 2002 computer with XP as my embroidery programs are old and won't work on the newer machines. I still use a floppy if you can believe that but do have the reader writer disc and another one for reading. My SIL added more ram for me and I am just hoping I won't have to have a customized computer made for me. I am still on the fence about the IP changer...so any further advice on that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much for all your advice and help. :-D