how do you keep viruses off you computor and still download things?

Question

i can also download software if it is nessesary

Answer 1

use an antivirus, spyware and firewall for best protection on the internet
For the best and free for personal use security software go here
http://freewww.uv.ro/security/security.html

Answer 2

In my spare time I test on my backup computer all antispyware/antivirus programs to see if the perform as claimed And especially to see which one have embedded trojans/adware either in their program or in the wizard installer used to guide you through the installation.

What is rate as 1-2-3-4-5 is not always the best. Especially when you can find free programs that are light years ahead in technology over the purchased.

In my computer I use the following free programs.

For antivirus you can only use one or you will have serious conflict with your system. You can use three or four antispyware without any conflict.

Avast in my opinion is the very best. Have you Avast for nine plus years and never had one virus. They are out of Prague.

http://www.avast.com This program is free and has one of the very best background scanner that will catch any virus in real time and destroyed the virus before it can enter you system.
Updates auto., two or three times per day. They will ask you for your email address so they can send you a free key that is good for one year. After one year you only have to request a new key.

Clinical Psychiatrist, France

Answer 3

You can keep viruses off your machine and download software if you have anti-virus running, and scan for spyware, here are some of the best software to have:

1) AVG anti-virus: http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/
2) Ad-aware spyware remover: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php
3) Spybot - Search and Destroy spyware remover: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
4) CCleaner - registry and privacy cleaner: http://www.ccleaner.com/
5) McAfee SiteAdvisor: http://www.siteadvisor.com/
6) TweakNow Registry Cleaner: http://www.tweaknow.com/RegCleaner.html
7) HijackThis: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
8) Windows Defender: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
9) Kerio Personal Firewall: http://www.kerio.com/kwf_home.html

If you have at least the first 4 programs, your computer should be running well.

Answer 4

Keep you security patches upto date, especially the following vulmerability:
MS03-026, MS03-007, MS03-001, MS04-011
These are usually use by bots in hacking in your computer.

In downloading, avoid illegal and adult related stuff, these are the usual entry point of viruses.

Answer 5

Run anti-spyware, firewall, avg free...Any of these will do.