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Below are the links to the best available online scanners that search for spyware and viruses on a computer the scanners are run from. They use ActiveXs/plugins in order to access the computer’s file system, so they need to be allowed to be loaded by the computer firewall and/or by other antispyware/antivirus program running on [...]

Antivirus, antispyware and firewall software are essential for the modern computers connected to the Internet. Despite the fact that it has been said many times, I’d like to reiterate that every computers should have some sort of protection against viruses and spyware because presence of these nasty things on the computer leads to the personal [...]

The Internet statistics shows that people mostly use Internet Explorer to browse the Internet. The other browsers like Firefox, Opera, Safari and now Chrome are not as popular as Internet Explorer. There is nothing unusual about that because Internet Explorer comes with all editions of Windows operation system and supported by Microsoft. After all, all [...]

I have recently been persuaded that the firewall that comes with Windows Vista is not a big improvement from Windows XP built-in firewall. It can easily let in viruses, spyware, malware and other unwanted and dangerous executable programs too. Don’t get me wrong - it does protect against some stuff, it also restricts the permissions [...]

It is very important to keep the software up to date on the computer. This is because the malicious programs, viruses and other unwanted stuff is evolving every day, and with them the anti-viruses and the internet security programs are evolving too. There is a parity and this parity is broken if the software that [...]