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. Sure, there are people out there who get into the Pentagon computers. They are the few who are true criminals, or are interested only in the challenge.