If you only use anti-virus software and you work on a Windows PC, then you are not doing enough to protect yourself. You should also be using Anti-Spyware software. Spyware is unwanted software that is placed on your machine without your permission, and most of the time, without your knowledge.
SpyWare can make your Internet connection slow, spawn pop-up advertisements, reduced your computer's performance, and result in identity theft and the loss of private information. Microsoft has introduced a beta version of their new free AntiSpyware Software.
I consider myself to be a very careful web surfer. I run anti-virus software on my PC, but I ran the AntiSpyware program and found one piece of Spyware on my machine. I plan to regularly run the software and check my PC. It took less than 8 minutes run the first check, and finding a piece of Spyware certainly made it worth the time.
Any website that hijacks your web browser's default homepage is suspect for viruses and Spyware. You have to be very careful when browsing the web with Internet Exploder (uh, I mean Internet Explorer) because it is very suspecitable to being taken over by unscruptilious websites. I would recommend using another browser for surfing the web.
I have been using Firefox 1.0 and am very happy with it. So far, I have not had any problems viewing any pages with it. My Internet banking site even works with it. One of the best features of Firefox is tabbed browsing. Tabbed browsing allows you to view multiple websites in the same window. Ever had five or six Internet Explorer windows opened? In Foxfire I can have Google in a tab, my blog in another tab, Amazon.com in another, an online spell checker in another, along with eBay, PayPal and MapQuest all in other tabs. Check out Firefox and download, here.
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