Safe Surfing Tips

Surf safe! If you want to stay away from malware (trojans, spyware, adware...), we recommend using the following free programs.

SpyBot can detect and remove a huge variety of threats from your system. Additionally it can apply some sort of immunization to your browser that will make your computer harder to infect.

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Adaware can scan your entire computer for adware/spyware and offer you to delete or quarantine them. The free version is strictly a scanning program, it doesn't offer real-time protection.

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Windows Update should be used frequently, if not set to run automatically, so that your system remains up to date. You can find it at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/. Note that this page only works with Internet Explorer, however, we would recommend using:

Firefox is safer and faster than IE. Many attacks will not work against you if you are browsing the web through firefox.