Have you been hit by malware?

[DeeBye]

Someone posted a very good thread about some good, free porgrams that didn't contain any themselves.  I can't remember when it was, but wasn't more than a month and a half.  I got some of the stuff there, and have been using it to keep my computer clean since.

Here ya go

I used to have all kinds of issues with malware, but I got fed up and got tough on it. In addition to antivirus and a firewall, I also use Firefox and Thunderbird as my default browser and email client. I run AdAware and Spybot every week or so (in my experience it's always a good idea to run BOTH). I also make sure that Windows always has the latest security patches.

This might seem like a lot of effort, but in reality it only takes a few minutes per week. Since I started these new anti-malware protocols, I've never been hit with any sort of virus or instance of malware.

As for the KaZaA issue, I prefer Shareaza. Shareaza 2.0 was just released, and it became open source. It connects to eDonky and Gnutella, and it has very nice built-in support for Bit Torrent. The UI is also much slicker than KaZaA.