hey yall i dont mean to sound like a geek or nething but you'll probably want to go to windows update and update yer comps so you can have updated security. man these new threats are riiculous

 

what threats?

 

like all of the friggin spammers and and all of the hijackers and trojans and spyware and adware my gf just got a new laptop for school and her comp was reddled with spywar and **** by christmas i had to wipe the harddrive b/c they had all created an immunity to talll of the virus and spyware programs she had on her comp. i wish ppl would just learn to do all of this **** and to it to their computer and mine u know what i mean. i mean it had damn near taken control of her computer. its total bull****

 

something i have learned is all that spywear stuff makes your computer slower. its a constant running program so its always using ram. but i have never had any virus problemos. every blue moon i knotice a strange file on my hd. knowing that might be a viruse, just delete it.

 

yeah i guess ur right

 

If you are using Internet Explorer, stop, switch over to Firefox, at the moment no one(extremely small percentage) is coding spyware or viruses for Firefox, also get yourself a GOOD firewall, like Norton or TrendMicro, DONT use Microsofts firewall if you don't have to, and for those dsl and cable people get a router w/ a hardware firewall. Don't forget to update your firmware on your hardware firewalls and make sure you have automatic updates on your software firewall. Search google for most spoofed IP address and block those, also block all RESERVED IP address, Telnet connections(unless you use it).

 

get a Mac...