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Originally Posted by sburro

Now I am scared. I only run a Mcafee virus scan/ firewall. I only have a dial up connecton Is there anything that I should be afraid of?

You should be ok, as long as Mcafee is kept updated. I only use Norton Antivirus and Mozilla, although I did use adaware to get some spyware off my parent's computer. I've just never let any on.

The best way to prevent spyware and such from getting on your computer is to read boxes that pop-up before clicking ok. Once you get one peice of spy/adware on your PC it can add five more almost instantly. This is what happened to my parents, the day after I reformatted their HD. I don't know how the first peice of software got downloaded (my parents are usually smart about that kind of thing), but as soon as it was on there were about 6 others. When you deleted them via "Add/remove programs", it was still there. When you deleted it's directory in "c:/program files/" it came back. So my brother reccomended ad-aware, and it worked great. But there's no need to get it until you have a problem.