What ever you do, don't trust those "Check your computer for free" tests that are on some random virus scan sites. It'll say "Found 168 viruses; 14 worms; 2859 spyware! Omygosh! You better buy our software so you can remove them!" <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/XmasEek.gif" alt="" />
Yeah, right. Chances are that you have no viruses at all. I checked with my McAfee right after one of those scans and it was like "You have cookies! :/" and that was it.
Also, I don't trust those virusscan ads that pop up. When my computer was going down down baby, those were the worst pop-ups I had (and I had alot). I bet they just
give you a virus that advertises them, then they say "uhh, you should get our, uh, virus scanner because, uh, you have a bagillion viruses... yeah".
I've always been a fan of McAfee; its given me pleanty of fun protecion.
Also I highly suggest to everyone to get the
McAfee Free Site Adviser . Basically, it goes in your web bar at the top of your internet and it tells you if a site is safe or not with a checkmark, or a ! warning, or a X (bad <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" /> ). But what if you really want to use that unsafe site? Well, just click on the warning thing, and it will open up another window giving you comeplete stats on the site: links to malicious sites, virus-full downloads and what virus is in them, people's posted opinions about the site's saftey, how many pop-ups there are, etc. You may want to play some flash games on a site, but then it says ! and you think "oh no!" but then you check the stats and its only a link to other bad sites that put the ! there.
Also, it gives you the checkmark;!;X on google searches. All in all: super useful. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />
Killerzzz
