The Internet contains a vast amount of information. But you need to remember the threats that come with it. Adware, spyware, viruses, worms, mouse trap, and other types of malware can infect your PC very quickly. There are people who get infected by malware every week.

If you’re a frequent user of the internet, you must be visiting hundreds of websites every month. So, how to know which websites contain malicious code and which are not? Sometimes, you might visits a website that seems legitimate and provide freeware downloads. But, how do you determine which programs are malicious?

Let’s say you found a website offering anti-spyware download and you immediately download it. What you didn’t know is that website is actually offering rogue anti-spyware for you to download.

After installing the rogue software, you immediately realize that it’s a malicious software and try to remove it. However, the software already installed worms, or trojan horses, or rootkit inside your PC without you knowing it and there is no way of removing it.

So, the question is, how you can visit a suspicious website, download the software offered, install it and after you found it’s a malware, remove all of it from your PC including the rootkit, or worms, or the trojan horse that it has installed? Or how do you remove any malicious software installed by the malicious websites into your system without your concern?

Use SandBoxie. It’s a software that creates a sandbox-like wall that isolates the programs you have installed and remove all of the malicious software components the moment you remove the software without infecting any other files or programs.

So, you can visit many websites and test many programs using SandBoxie and remove it the moment you realize it’s a malicious software. You can test various programs and websites by using this software.

Another software that I recommend is the McAfee Site Advisor. It’s a software that will advise you if the websites that you’re visiting contain:

1. Links to malicious websites. 2. Lots of pop-ups 3. Malicious software downloads 4. Spam emails.

By using these two software, you can rest assure that you can surf the internet happily and can avoid those malicious websites without worrying the effect.

However, it’s actually a wise move if you didn’t visit the malicious websites or install any suspicious software into your system. It’s better to prevent than cure.

Spyware and computer viruses are one of the online threats that can be harmful to your system. Protection against these threats is essential and every computer should have at least a basic protection.

National Cyber Security Alliance in 2005 online safety study has reported that 81% of computer home users lack basic protection. This study shows that most people still don’t know about PC protection and even though some of them know about it, they don’t know where to find good software to protect their system.

In this article, I will tell you what are the anti-spyware and anti-viruses that you can use for free and will give you the protection that you need.

Avast! Anti-virus is created by ALWIL Software and one of the top anti-viruses. I like this the most because it has seven protections. Instant messaging, Internet mail, network shield, outlook/exchange, P2P shield, standard shield and web shield.

Another good software is AVG. AVG is created by Grisoft and you can get new virus definitions almost everyday. It also has a real-time protection against viruses. Install one of these software because you cannot have more than one anti-virus in a system.

Now let us go to the anti-spyware solution. The first one is Spybot Search and Destroy and it’s also free software. This software is very good and it can remove almost all threats such as adware, spyware, and keyloggers from your computer. It also has some real-time protection.

Ad-Aware 2007 is also one of my favorite software. The free version of this software lacks Ad-Watch, which is the real-time protection against spyware. However, owning the free version of this software is enough because you can use other software to provide your system a real-time protection for free.

The software that can provide you real-time protection against spyware are Spyware Terminator and Windows Defender. Both are free and both are good enough to give real-time protection for your system.

Anti-spyware has a different rule than anti-viruses, not like anti-viruses, you can install more than one anti-spyware in your system.

It’s up to you which software that you want to use because all the software that I recommend here are good and please remember that some of these free software can only be used for personal use only and not for commercial use.