Most of us have a fast broadband connection and spend time browsing the web, chatting with friends online or download files and install to our PC. With this in mind, we need the best security we can find for our system to protect against the latest threats. With the November issue, we have a security theme with a special exclusive full version of PC Tools Spyware Doctor 5 with AntiVirus Starter Edition, which will enable you to receive definition updates, so you're always one-step ahead of the threats.

In addition, we also have McAfee Personal Firewall Plus 7, McAfee QuickClean 6 which will eliminate personal information from your computer, as well as two backup programs in Genie Backup Manager 5 Professional and Backup4All 3 Lite.

If you've bought the DVD edition, you'll find Avery Wizard 3.1, which will enable you to design and print your own labels. Better still, the first 1000 DVD-issue readers can get a free label starter pack worth £5. We've also got an extensive collection of the latest game demos, updated software Resources and, in the Linux section, the first preview of Mandriva 2008, which is a DVD-based distro.

Important: Problems Obtaining Full Application Serial Codes
Over the last few months, we've noticed that readers have had problems obtaining serial codes from online registration pages. This isn't always a problem with the online registration page, but a problem with anti-spam filters, which filter out the incoming email (containing the serial code). If you have an internal anti-spam filter installed on your computer, check your 'junk mail' or 'spam' folder, to see if the email has accidentally been classed as spam.

Alternatively, you may find that you're Internet service provider (ISP) has implemented a server-side anti-spam filter. A server-side anti-spam filter filters email at the ISP...so you don't even see the spam. However, the downside is that any email that your ISP classes as 'spam' means that it gets filtered, by your ISP. Our advice would be to turn off your ISP server-side anti-spam filter and use a filter on your system, which means that spam is filtered by your own preferences (ie what you regard as spam).