
You have to be real careful these days on the internet, for scammers trying to bilk you out of your hard earned penny.
I've been well woven into the depths of the internet, and all of it's seedy corners, for over 15 years now and have never fallen for a single scam. That's not bragging, there's just a few basic tricks to being able to (generally) spot someone trying to scam you.
This is a repost of the tips, in reply to a previous thread, which can be found here.

So when it comes to protecting our computers we try and keep up to date with all of our anti-virus and Malware programs.

So I thought we needed a thread on Free software out there to help protect your PC. Bottom line if money is tight you still can protect your pc for FREE
Free Anti-virus
AVG Anti-virus
Panda Activescan (the free scan not the paid one)

First I recommend not using Norton or McAfee !
I will tell you the little about what I know about Antivirus Programs (Others may have more knowledge)
AVG is what I recommend !!! Download it here !
I recently had a run in with the Windows 7 Internet Security 2012 Malware
and now I have a red x in my status bar tray, clicking it shows the Action Center saying "The Windows Security Center Service can't be started". After Googling for hours all that I was able to find about this was to press Windows Key + R, type in "services.msc", look for "Security Center" in the list, and set it's Startup Type to "Automatic (Delayed)".

Last night during my usual blackhat grayhat travels I managed to get infected with the Win 7 Internet Security 2012 virus / trojan. Mine in particular came via the consrv.dll rootkit which tends to infest itself via bugs in popular software like Adobe producs and Flash. Nice. ![]()

Recently some Wordpress plug-ins were discovered to have malicious, Malware, trojan code in them. Below is the list of of known malicious Wordpress plug-ins.

This release represents our most significant update in 2 years and we want to thank everyone who helped test along the way.
What’s New in SuperAntiSpyware 5?
I have spent all evening trying to get it off. Any ideas?

Hey whats a good free virus program.. i have full Norton, but it seems to be
.. in the last week I've lost my wow account and my facebook. (got both back.. but I must have something that's not being picked up by Norton)

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