I have been using Newsbin pro for a while. Is there anything better that you guys use?

try the standard Agent (Forte Inc.), or I use BNR (Free, handles multiple servers,connections, etc) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bnr1/

Forte Agent is the one I use.

I was gonna say it was the best, but it depends on what you want to do (and which version you have)

What are these?

Newsgroups readers. Newsgroups are kinda like the old pre-internet Bulletin Boards.

You can get all kinds of stuff off the news groups. Music, software, information, ****, and of course spam. And some pretty scarey suff, too. Some of the group titles are just too wierd to even investigate.

Do I type in news group? I don't want to go anywhere that I can pick up a virus. So should I stay away?

Newsgoups are not technically on the internet. They are a seperate function.

Do a Google search for something on the Groups link

For Example....

Kinda hard to explain. Your ISP should have a news server you can explore using Outlook Express

i use Xnews... i like it, but since have been using BitComet becuase i only used newsgroups for downloading music, so i use BitComet and torrentspy.com, works like a charm. last week i think i downloaded something like 8GB of music. i do miss the download speeds of newsgroups however, but with comcast i only get like 1GB a month and the headers alone from some groups would almost breach that...