![]() There are at least a dozen highly touted anti-virus and anti-spyware tools - some commercial and some free. And running multiple anti-spyware tools at once WILL slow down your computer. In fact, anti-virus programs can end up fighting with each other, and cause system lockups. I hear from some readers who run two or three anti-virus programs, and half a dozen anti-spyware tools. See my related articles Fake AntiVirus Software and Don't Fall Victim to Scareware for more on that. If you get tricked into downloading one of these, you'll probably see popups everywhere, and new viruses coming in by the truckload. In reality, these fake anti-virus tools are "malware funnels" that only makes things worse. More recent examples include fakes with names like Antivirus 2013, and Win 7 AntiSpyware. One notorious example was Winfixer, which purported to fix all manner of ills on your Windows PC. There are some excellent free anti-malware tools, but some of the freebies circulating in cyberspace are in fact rogue programs designed to open your computer to a massive invasion of spyware and viruses. You are correct to be wary of downloading certain freeware "solutions" for spyware, viruses and popups.
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