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Here you will find some of the best internet and computer security tips I have discovered since goofing around with technology. The absolute best part is that most all of these features that I am pointing our are 100% free. "Trust me I'm a professional!"

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OpenDNS is the easiest way to stay safe online. OpenDNS gives you more than 50 filtering categories to choose from. Simply check the boxes of the categories you want to block and watch your filtering take effect within minutes.
To use OpenDNS, all you have to do is open your Network Connections or Router’s settings page and update the default DNS server to point to the OpenDNS nameservers that are 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220.

Another huge advantage of using OpenDNS is that it blocks phishing websites from loading on your computer. It uses data from Phishtank, a community site that is also used by Yahoo! Mail to determine if some particular website is part of any online phishing scam.

If you are a parent worried about kids visiting adult websites on the home computer, you can configure OpenDNS to block any adult website from loading on the computer. In fact, quite a few business places use OpenDNS to block social sites like MySpace and Facebook on employee computers.
     
Malware Bytes   FREE! Easy-to-use, simple, and effective anti-malware application. Malwarebytes created this easy-to-use, simple, and effective anti-malware application. Whether you know it or not your computer is always at risk of becoming infected with viruses, worms, trojans, rootkits, dialers, spyware, and malware that are constantly evolving and becoming harder to detect and remove. Only the most sophisticated anti-malware techniques can detect and remove these malicious programs from your computer. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware is considered to be the next step in the detection and removal of malware. It can detect and remove malware that even the most well known anti-virus and anti-malware applications fail to detect.
     
  AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is an anti-virus scanner that offers Resident Protection, e-mail Scanner, On-Demand Scanner, and Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files and automatic updates. The free version is limited in features, but includes all basic scanning functionality as well as real-time protection. It uses the same scanning engine as the commercial version, however updates are provided on a low priority basis.
     
  Trend Micro™ HouseCall is an online virus scanner for checking if your computer has been infected by viruses, spyware, or other malware. HouseCall performs additional security checks to identify and fix vulnerabilities to prevent reinfection as well. Many times viruses can hide from the virus software on your computer, but they can't hide from online scanners!
     
F-Secure   F-Secure is a FREE online scanner that can get rid of viruses and spyware causing problems on your PC. Often, viruses will lock down your computer installed virus detection (Norton, McAfee, etc.) and you can't run them. Using and online scanner like F-Secure will identify the virus and remove it when your computer installed antivirus software can't.