Hello everyone. You know a lot of people out there. All they want to do is get online and have fun. Listen to music, play games, stay in touch with family and friends. Use to they didn't worry much about protecting their pc. Now day's we are bombarded with all kinds of threats from the internet. Mailware, spyware viruses, hackers, identity theft. Yes you can pay for realtime protection and might get protected. But you get what you pay for with those opptions. I have been some what of a computer geek for the last 10 years. ( Computer repair and network technicion). I have found a couple of programs that work well together. One Avira is one of them. I have no troubles running this program. From what I have read above it is the number one Antivirus program for free. I do get a little upset that it keeps poping up autorun. exe was blocked. I use to get realy upset about this untill one day I turned avira off so I could see what program was doing this. Mailware!!! automated mailware attached to one of the websites I go to. Not cookies, mailware. I leave avira up and running now and ignor the thing when it dose it. One of the other programs I use was listed here too. Malwarebytes. Nice little program. I love the new chameleon. Work like a charm on hiding itself to fool hacker, mailware and spyware programs. Once again free and easy to use. Only thing is you have to remember to do updates every day. Another nice feature abvout Malwarebytes is it updates it's data base constanly. You can do an update and 20 minutes later you can do it again. I only update once a day on malwarebytes and am fine. Avira is set to auto update so I don't have to worry so much about it. The last program I use is Superantispyware. It is also a free program and dose not ast you to go pro all the time. Malwarebytes, Avira and Superantispyware all have the option on the main screen to allow you to go pro but it is your choice. They do not pop up big adds saying you have to. If it dose someone done hacked you. Log into safemode without networking and run you antivirus program. Superantispyware is a lot like Malwarebytes in that it detects and blocks spyware and mailware. But I don't think many people know that both of these programs do more than block popups. They find and distroy trojans. Superantispyware is like Malware, you have to do manual update every day. That is why before I go online each day I play sol while these two programs up date befor I go to any website. Takes me a whole wopping 5 minutes to update both. And here is the kicker of the whole thing. All of these are free programs. When I know I have been hit and none of these programs can get rid of it I have another trick up my sleave. And guess what? It is another free program from McAffe. McAfee Stinger. Very effective program. To use it. Do like I said earlier. Log into safemode without networking, open the folder you downloaded it to and follow the promps. I just hope you don't have any computer prank programs on your PC you want to keep. It even takes out windows malicious software removal tool. Now how is that for preformance. So before you go bashing Avira and Malwarebytes migtht I suggest you try them first. And please fill free to add the other two to your arsenal. I have been running all of them for the last six years and they work for me. And I am a diehard XP user.