Q: What can happen to me while I'm doing business on the web?

A: Lots of things. Some good some ***

Q: Can I take control by myself of all this?

A: Yes, you can. Make sure you are: spending at least five hours a day browsing the web; ready to learn some minimal HTML and better if advancing a bit into LAMP; remembering quite well some basic maths lessons from school — computers are numbers crunching maths machines, ya know; having a healthy common sense to stay in touch with reality; patient enough to wait several years in order to gain the kind of web savvy/experience that will save you from landing on the net-predators menu list; ... yet some couple more