Firewalls and Antiviruses a must

With the way the Internet is, you really don’t know at times what you will get yourself into when visiting a web site. In 2004, I was discussing a real problem with a friend of mine who was searching on the Internet and was going from one site to another and the last site he visited, automatically sent him to another web site that downloaded software to his hard drive without his permission and in the process used his PC to download files all the time whenever he was connected to the Internet. He tried everything he could think of to delete this stuff — System Restore, delete files, you name it. He admitted not having his Anti Virus running at the time which was why his PC was not protected. I’m not even sure his firewall was on either. I was on the phone for a few hours trying to help him get through this and even with my experience, I only got him part of the way out of this. I think he ended up having his whole hard drive dumped and reformatted if I remember correctly. The moral of the story, is, “don’t have a protected PC, expect problems”.

I have Anti Virus software, Firewall, & Spyware protection on my PC. All I can ask is “what is next?”