Let this be the year that we back away from our computers and do more brick and mortar purchasing.
The anti-virus program that you have should have browser protection. If
it doesn’t you should probably change to one that does have browser
protection...
I recommend http://www.f-secure.com/en/web/home_us/home,
but even that may not help much...also try Malwarebytes
as additional protection. Overlapping protection is a good idea.
I use Spyware Blaster
When installing it choose "manual updating" and it will be free to you.
I slso use Spybot-search and destroy, another great free program.
I use the free Avast antivirus
also.
"Nicole Perlroth reports in the NY Times that the antivirus industry has a dirty little secret: antivirus products are not very good at stopping new viruses.
Researchers collected and analyzed 82 new computer viruses and put them
up against more than 40 antivirus products, made by top companies like
Microsoft, Symantec, McAfee and Kaspersky Lab and found that the initial detection rate was less than 5 percent
(PDF). 'The bad guys are always trying to be a step ahead,' says
Matthew D. Howard, who previously set up the security strategy at Cisco
Systems. 'And it doesn't take a lot to be a step ahead.' Part of the
problem is that antivirus products are inherently reactive. Just as
medical researchers have to study a virus before they can create a
vaccine, antivirus makers must capture a computer virus, take it apart
and identify its 'signature' — unique signs in its code — before they
can write a program that removes it. That process can take as little as a
few hours or as long as several years. In May, researchers at Kaspersky
Lab discovered Flame, a complex piece of malware that had been stealing data from computers for an estimated five years.
'The traditional signature-based method of detecting malware is not
keeping up,' says Phil Hochmuth. Now the thinking goes that if it is no
longer possible to block everything that is bad, then the security
companies of the future will be the ones whose software can spot unusual behavior
and clean up systems once they have been breached. 'The bad guys are
getting worse,' says Howard. 'Antivirus helps filter down the problem,
but the next big security company will be the one that offers a
comprehensive solution.'"
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