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First, a firewall&#8230;&#13;<br \/>&#8216;The Castle Moat&#8217; so to speak. A firewall can&#8217;t see &#13;<br \/>inside your computer beforehand though, so if any viruses &#13;<br \/>or spyware were present before the firewall was installed &#13;<br \/>then its of no use. Of course, its extremely good at preventing new&#13;<br \/>attacks.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Second, a anti-virus program&#8230;. &#8216;The Castle Drawbridge!&#13;<br \/>They will not provide much help with spyware, but good&#13;<br \/>virus protection is as desirable as one of Avaris&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>dreams! One drawback can be the updates, of course.If&#13;<br \/>you&#8217;ve just updated Wednesday night and a virus hits the&#13;<br \/>next day, then you may not be protected till next&#13;<br \/>Wednesday night, and by then it may be too late. If you&#8217;re&#13;<br \/>smart, you will have signed up for email alerts with&#13;<br \/>the provider, or even better, you&#8217;ll have a anti-virus&#13;<br \/>program that has a real time update feature. I get the&#13;<br \/>tingles when I see that little pop-up saying a update&#13;<br \/>is available and click here. Its downloaded ,installed, &#13;<br \/>and updated in about 20 seconds! A new virus or Trojan or &#13;<br \/>God forbid, a new keylogger can hit the internet and spread &#13;<br \/>in a matter of days, and I&#8217;m sure this must make the definition &#13;<br \/>writers lives a living hell. I have great admiration for &#13;<br \/>them as they could have been wealthy doctors, but they have &#13;<br \/>chosen to help us&#8230; the end users. (moment of silence here)&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Last, we have anti-spyware programs,&#8217;The Flaming oil&#8217;! (my favorite).&#13;<br \/>Their update features are like the anti-virus programs, &#13;<br \/>so you have to be as vigilant with this method of defense &#13;<br \/>too as you would be with the others. I&#8217;ve heard there are&#13;<br \/>people out there that don&#8217;t even know when their&#13;<br \/>updates run, or even if its configured to do so! I&#13;<br \/>refuse to believe this sordid rumor!&#13;<\/p>\n<p>So you&#8217;ve got your defenses set up, you&#8217;re looking good.&#13;<br \/>But the best defense is a good offense, attack!&#13;<br \/>That&#8217;s what some organizations do. They prowl the net&#13;<br \/>looking for websites that harbor drive-by downloads,&#13;<br \/>URL Re-Directing and such. When they find them, they&#13;<br \/>shut them down, or report them so effective protection&#13;<br \/>can be manufactured. These people have my sincere&#13;<br \/>thanks for what they do. With identity theft on the&#13;<br \/>rise and Websense reporting that the average computer&#13;<br \/>has 28 items of Spyware on it, we need all the help we&#13;<br \/>can get. Oh sure, you&#8217;re saying not my computer !&#13;<br \/>Well, lets discuss those little boxes that you click&#13;<br \/>&#8220;I Agree&#8221; to when you download something. Do you read&#13;<br \/>the entire statement? This is one way spyware has&#13;<br \/>become so rampant, because so many downloads have extra&#13;<br \/>software included in them. These can be harmful to&#13;<br \/>your  computers well being. KeyLoggers, popups, adware, malware&#8230;&#13;<br \/>Need I go on?&#13;<br \/>So my idea is that we need these shining knights from the&#13;<br \/>castle to journey forth on a quest. They will be&#13;<br \/>little robots or spiders like the search engines use.&#13;<br \/>They will be given absolute power over harmful&#13;<br \/>programs they find. They will be like Gort in the&#13;<br \/>movie &#8220;The Day the Earth Stood Still&#8221;.&#13;<br \/>Dell recently reported that 12% of their calls were&#13;<br \/>for spyware damage, Microsoft says half of their&#13;<br \/>reports of system crashes are caused by spyware. 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