When having internet, what is the best program that I should get to protect my computer?

Question

Like an anti-virus program, that works and thats not too expensive.

Answer 1

Antivir by Avira is an excellent antivirus program and best of all it is free.

http://www.free-av.com/

Answer 2

FREE avast ! anti virus 4.x Home Edition

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.ht...

Spyware Blaster anti spyware

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownlo...

Spybot anti spyware

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/downl...

Firefox 3.0.1 web browser

http://www.getfirefox.com

Dr Web link checker.This plugin allows you to check any file you are about to download, any page you are about to visit with online version of Dr.Web anti-virus! New menu item "Scan with Dr.Web" will appear on hyperlink context menu.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox...

Finjan Link Checker.alerts you when any malicious content in a webpage that proactively alerts when you encounter a potential malicious content hiding behind links of search results, ads and other selected web pages.Finjan Secure Browsing then displays a safety rating next to each link it has scanned.in searches[ google,yahoo,ect ] there will be green [ safe ],yellow [ caution ] and RED [ DANGER ] icons on each link

PAY ATTENTION HERE TO THOSE RED [ DANGER ] ICONS !

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox...

Interclue::Ever wanted to know what was behind the link before you clicked? Interclue tells you everything you need to know before you open yet another tab. does NOT work in Yahoo e-mail

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox...

Link Evaluator ::designed to help users evaluate the availability of online resources linked to from a given Web page. When started, it automatically follows all links on the current page, and assesses the responses of each

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox...

Firekeeper is an Intrusion Detection and Prevention System integrated within Firefox. Its main goal is to detect and inform the user about malicious sites that are trying to use some known browsers vulnerabilities to get control over the user's machine or to

do some other suspicious action.

http://firekeeper.mozdev.org/installatio...

Firefox Options: Security :Content: check block pop ups.should pop ups get through [ and they will ],get the url

and enter that in the load images section and choose block

Privacy: Cookies: put that same url into accept cookies and choose block

Answer 3

I use McAfee SiteAdvisor to view websites and see if they have linked cookies and other viruses that will make my computer crash. I also have Norton AntiVirus to get rid of cookies and viruses if one happens to pass through the McAfee Security Center. It works extremely well.