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[Dan Murphy]

LOL, so well said, Jeff. Some kids never learn.

I have used Panda http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/titanium2005/ for several years, works perfectly for me. Updates EVERY day, and has nailed a number of viruses over the years. Antivirus software, of some type, even the free mentioned, is absolutely necessary in today's environment. Anybody with any understanding would know that, or just trying to be thick for the sense of being thick.

 

[aengus]

For God Sake people speak English! LOL What is most scary for me is the fact I do not understand most of what you guys are talking about. I wish I knew how write an anti virus that would send itself back to the original source and some how crash the writer's computer! I am NOT computer literate. I have maybe 6 years experience and that is mostly writing reports in Windows!

One of the questions I have for a computer geeks is how do you know a safe site?? I mean I went to a site to look up a particular brand of bathing suit that was very main stream and my homepage got highjacked. I go to very few places on the web for just that reason. I even got a the virus protection that they use to keep our network safe in work (7 schools and hundreds of computers) it did not work. I have a firewall, Norton, Spybot, and Adaware. I am not even opening e mail unless I know who it is from!! What am I doing wrong?

Unfortunately you dont always know. Sometimes even big mainstream websites are attacked and are used to spread viri (remember code red?) This is why you should use anti virus software that is up to date.

when it comes to adware... OI VEY. Even sites like ESPN.com put adware on your computer.

 

[chadfromdallas]

Oh but downloading is illegal! You'd probably never, ever go to demonoid.com. Good thing!

 

[chadfromdallas]

LOL, so well said, Jeff. Some kids never learn.

I have used Panda http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/titanium2005/ for several years, works perfectly for me. Updates EVERY day, and has nailed a number of viruses over the years. Antivirus software, of some type, even the free mentioned, is absolutely necessary in today's environment. Anybody with any understanding would know that, or just trying to be thick for the sense of being thick.

 

[jfulcer]

One of the questions I have for a computer geeks is how do you know a safe site?? I mean I went to a site to look up a particular brand of bathing suit that was very main stream and my homepage got highjacked. I go to very few places on the web for just that reason.

Then get Firefox. It's a Internet Explorer replacement that is much safer and more secure. Like any other software you also need to do updates for this on occasion but the holes are fewer and farther between. There are very few sites that are mainstream that you can't use Firefox.

http://www.getfirefox.com

So you need to :

1) Make sure you have antivirus of some sort
2) Get Firefox
3) Use Spybot and Adaware weekly (or more often) to catch any spyware that DOES get through (and it will).

If you do these three things, you've got a pretty good chance of not 'catching anything bad'.