Article: Protecting your computer from viruses, adware and spyware

[Tingey]

Before we can learn to protect our computers from viruses, we must first understand what a virus is. A computer virus is nothing more than a program designed to duplicate and spread itself from computer to computer. Aside from duplicating and spreading itself, some viruses are designed to cause damage to your files....

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[Blitze105]

http://www.techist.com/showthread.php?threadid=53623

the member named SkyHi and I are making a site, a lot more detailed in that catagory and over alot more. i will post it on TF when it is done, you may want to try it.

PS
i suggest taking the e mail address out of your sig, and putting your IM's instead. putting e mails on open sites can ofter get you sent worms and viruses by spiders