Dell attempts to mitigate curse of spyware, trojans
Giant PC Maker Dell has started a web site to guide the unwary about the wicked and annoying curse of spyware and viruses. The web page provides a guide to how you secure your PC, and it also gives a few packages you could buy to stop your machine from slowing down or worse. Not that Sunbelt, AOL 9.0 and Symantec may be the best software packages to prevent PC hell. What's true is that many people in our broadband ready PC-laden world are seemingly unconscious to the types of threat they may encounter. If you have a PC, and can't afford to lash out on expensive packages, there are quite a few shareware and freeware pieces of software such as Spybot Search and Destroy that can help you out. Some of those are covered here, with links. Zone Alarm and Sygate also offer pretty good firewalls to stop people from ponging up your ping, so to speak. The Dell page is here, for other advice.
Reproduced from an article published by The Inquirer
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