A number of our visitors have expressed a reluctance to use their credit cards on the Internet. In view of the recent virus scares this is understandable.
Every new technology goes through a period of distrust.
Only birds were meant to fly. Some risks are real, some are exaggerated. Generally, when the risks are real someone does something to minimize them. E-commerce on the Internet is no different. Using SSL, the data that you type into your computer can only be decoded by the Secure Server with which you are communicating.