If you think all this fuss over spyware, adware, viruses and trojans are just methods to get you to switch to a Mac, you’re wrong! These are by far the biggest threats to online security. If anyone is consider purchasing a computer for your home, you need to address this problem before you ever connect to the Internet.
According to Consumer Reports.org :
“Use the Internet at home and you have a 1-in-3 chance of suffering computer damage, financial loss, or both because of a computer virus or spyware that sneaks onto your computer. That’s one of the unsettling conclusions from our 2005 Consumer Reports State of the Net survey of online consumers.
What else did we discover? Although American consumers invested more than $2.6 billion in protection software over the past two years, they still spent more than $9 billion for computer repairs, parts, and replacement to solve problems caused by viruses and spyware.”