Let’s say that you are casually surfing the web, when suddenly a window pops up and asks you to use a program that you don’t recognize to scan your computer for viruses. STOP! It could be a fake virus scan. Although there are numerous free virus scanning programs out there that actually work, there are also a lot of programs that will try to trick you into downloading bad software, or that will try to get you to buy something that you don’t need. Continue Reading »