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I ran into my first virus-infected system around 1995.

A firewall is required to make your system invisible to hackers.

If you want to read a horror story of what can happen to an unprotected system, Click Here If you have a pop-up blocker, hold the shift (or ctrl) key down, because this opens in a new window.

The free software has additional features that allows you to get rid of many problems interactively, so you know everything is fixed.

With the most popular paid software, all you can do is run a scan and hope for the best.

If I had known him at the time, I might have been able to help him save it.

If you download music from mp3 sharing sites it can give hackers a wide open door to your personal information.

The average life of an unprotected system on the internet is 16 minutes according to various surveys done by anti-virus software companies.

It even gives you detailed information on what it finds.

I remember wondering what kind of idiot would waste his time creating something to annoy people he didn't even know.

Many people don't even know how to turn it on.

I wish I knew (about this) the day when my computer got hi....

The emails you receive (even from people you know) can be infected with viruses.

It made programs larger and larger, taking more time to load each time they were run.

Viruses can send infected emails from your computer to all of your mailing list, with your name on it.

If you're running ant-virus software alone, it usually does not keep your system from becoming infected.

The spyware program I recommend also can keep your system from becoming infected with viruses before they do damage.

The real tragedy is that Steve lost most of his precious data.

Most of the windows XP systems I have cleaned do not have the firewall enabled.

It may detect the virus after your system is already compromised.