The Internet today is not the relaxed semi-safe place it was some 10 years ago. Now you can't go a day without being attacked by something from the web. Whether you know it or not, the net has constant attackers and now there is a pretty large commercial market to try to protect you.
In this article i read from this months PC Magazine, they go through a range of products, some of which i use, and some ive never heard of. I was interested to see how the money i spent really stacked up to the varying levels of security.
They talked about good ol' antispyware, software that searches, seeks out and is suppose to remove anything that gives someone else the ability to see whats on your computer or what your doing on your computer. The two pieces of software i use, webroot's Spy Sweeper and Norton Internet Security 2007.
It was nice to see that both products did well when compared to other products and did well overall. Spy Sweeper Averaged a 8.725 overall on blocker spyware, removing it and handling keyloggers (programs that record every key you press on your keyboard). Quite nice for a Standalone product. Made me feel better about surfing the web. :-)
Nortonn Internet Security 2007 scored and average of 8.8 with a perfect score in Keylogger removal and a 9.4 in keylogger blocking. With all these excellent scores you would think that im safe from lots of things.... WRONG!!!!!
Thats just the tip of th iceberg.
Luckily for me and a couple thousand other people, we have Norton Internet Security 2007, its handy because it includes a whole lot of tools for your personal protection. It has a Firewall, AntiSpyware, AntiVirus, AntiSpam, and EVEN Privacy/Parental controls (dont know why id need parental controls, but hey its free with the software. :-P) With all the different functions it can do, it can make your surfing experience so much safer, help you sleep at night, knowing that your computer is not being over run by spyware, and people looking to use your computer to do harm to others.
oh and Plus, your computer will run faster, so you can play all the fun games you like :-)
All these software solutions are nice, but there is always something that someone is working on or testing that finds ways around the security you put up. Your computer is just like a bank, you have all theses fancy monitors and security guards and vaults, but in the end, people still find ways to rob your bank. So all you can do is be vigilant in double-checking where your going on the web and scanning and downloading new updates all the time.
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