Anti-virus software

By now you are hopefully aware that there are all kinds of different virus, worms, bots, etc... with the sole purpose of hijacking your computer. Hopefully, you are running some sort of virus protection on your computer since there are a few good ones out there available for free.

However, if you still haven't installed anti-virus software because you think it will slow down your computer, you don't believe you need it, or for whatever reason you can't install it, your still in luck. There are online scanners available that allow you to scan your computer through the use of a browser plugin. Two such companies that offer this service are:

Trend Micro
and
McAfee (follow the FreeScan link to run this one)

So if you are running Windows with no anti-virus check out one of the following sites to make sure that your machine is running virus free.