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Why You Need To Worry About “Malware” ......................................................3
Viruses Make Your Machine Act Badly..............................................................4
Spyware Transmits Information about You........................................................4
AdWare Can Be – But Often Isn’t – “Friendly” Spyware ....................................5
Viruses .................................................................................................................6
What Viruses Do................................................................................................6
Best Antivirus Bets: Norton and McAfee............................................................7
But My ISP Includes Antivirus, Doesn’t It? ........................................................8
The importance of updating “definitions” ...........................................................9
The importance of common sense ..................................................................10
Spyware/Adware ...............................................................................................10
What “Friendly” Spyware/Adware Does...........................................................12
What “Bad” (Virtually All!) Spyware Does ........................................................14
Best Anti-Spyware Bets: Ad-Aware and SpyWare Doctor ...............................14
The importance of updating “definitions” .........................................................16
Security at the Browser Level ..........................................................................17
Disabling Bad Scripts – But Enabling Good Ones...........................................17
Just Say No! ....................................................................................................18