What programs will protect my computer from the dangers of the Internet?
On the subject of spyware and addware, there's really no one program that I've found to protect my computer from the dangers of the Internet. There are lots of good programs that are worth looking at. Spybot is one that's available, it's free and it's very good. Addaware is also one that's very good and free and they can be used in combination with each other. On the virus side of the picture there are the Pepsis and Coca Colas of the industry like Symantic and Macafee. I don't particuarlly prefer them. There's another company that now has over 2 million users world wide called AVG. They used to have a free product, they still have a very inexpensive product, and some are also very good. There's Panda, there's Caperski, there's Naw32. Some of the smaller, lesser known programs are really worth checking out, and do a very good job of scanning and protecting your computer against viruses. There are lots of free of programs out there that are very good, that can protect you against spyware and addware. If you are suddenly infected with pop-ups that are highjacking your main web page, that are telling you that you are infected and must "click here" to scan your computer and buy this, you must never go with those. That is absolutely the last program that you want to have anything to do with, because that program is a fake. That program is actually spyware.
