How to Not Get Infected Again

A good opinion as it is based on your past experience.

Years ago I used to just tell people to use free clients. However 95% of them do not offer live protection. That means they only work after you are infected with a virus and by then it’s often too late for the normal person to remove the threat with out expert help.

Even if you go to just trusted websites your still asking for trouble if you do not have active protection. Ten’s of thousands of websites get hacked every day and malicious code injected onto them. Some times false advertisers are able to trick major companies into having malisious codes onto websites. With out ample protection you will get infected even with taking your advice about web surfing.

You do have a great argument about safe web browsing. This alone will cut down on I would say 80% of infections. If you add in the free clients you are using then yes I would say you are mostly there and chances are you will not get an infection if you keep ALL those programs up to date as well as your operating system, web browser, java software ect..

For most people multiple users will use that single computer in the home. If you have a child and have nothing but free clients installed you will get a virus, it’s just matter of time. A paid client can go a very long ways in protecting you so you don’t have to have several programs installed and always ensure all your software is up to date.

Well I for one have tried multiple paid Antivirus programs, and each one seems to be worse then Avast, the free version. Norton seems to be the worst of them all as it detected very little stuff. I have also used PC Tools Spyware Doctor before, and didn’t like how it performed either, along with the Uniblue software that many people hype about.

All of my security software is free, and for the last 3 years(since I started using them) I have been virus and spyware free. The only way to not get infected is to be smart while you are online. Don’t click on ads or banners, play the Facebook or other social network games, add anyone on a social network that you don’t know, browse through porn sites, search for major celebrities(and just click random sites), or click random links you have no clue what it is about or are unsure if the site is safe/trusted.

Personally I use Avast free, Comodo Firewall free, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, McAfee SiteAdvisor, and CCleaner to keep my computer clean. You can keep the paid programs as I didn’t have near the luck with them that I do with the free ones I use.

If your gunna play around on the internet like a kid in a candy store, you are going to get infected as not all software will detect everything. One way to check what looks to be a link is to hover your mouse over the link and look in the lower left corner of your browser, if the link is different then what is shown on the page, don’t click it, its probably a phishing/scam link.