I'm never quite sure about the difference in distinction but I have broadband rather than DSL. It is much faster than dialup and one of the greatest benefits is the ability to play videos without the recurring burp in transmission.

I have Yahoo as one of my servers and it serves me well. It isolates spam so that I never even see it unless I wish to. As for ads flying in and obstructing my work, they are kept away by popup blockers.

I have surrounded myself with various spyware and anti-virus programs, including AdAware SE, SpywareBlaster, Spybot and AVG75free. Of them all I trust AVG the most - and I have it set on automatic daily scanning but I run the others periodically in order to delete spyware and just generally make sure that AVG is correct when it says that I'm in good shape. So far, it has always been corrct.