I said it before and I will continue to say it, protect your computer with an anti-virus, a firewall and anti-spyware, also, add Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) - it's free!

By installing the free Microsoft Security Essentials in your Windows PC, you will protect the system from malware attacks to a certain degree. Initially, Microsoft rolled out this softwared in 17 countries and 8 languages. As I write this post today, this product is already available in 74 countries and 25 languages and probably by the end of 2010 it will be available in 87 countries and 33 languages. The software is small, light and with simple user interface that starts working to clean your system as soon as you finish installing it.

The reason why you need to add an anti-virus to your comptuter on top of this software, is because MSE has a poor protection against keyloggers, rootkits, and scareware.

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