Anti-virus software?
I received an interesting email from MacAfee, my current anti-virus program: apparently, it will cost $93 to renew my subscription. While I think that protecting my computer from viruses is worth some money, I don't want it to cost quite that much -- not to mention the new version of MacAfee has taken up blocking "suspicious" content from trustworthy webites like Epicurious and Hotmail. Does anyone have a recommendation for something that is cheaper and less paranoid?
I got it through Best Buy but you can go directly through Kaspersky. One thing I like about Kaspersky is that it tells me what it's doing...it finds a lot of bad stuff through LJ ad banners...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_Lab#Independent_assessments
OR you could take the plunge and try out linux, since Ubuntu is shiny nowadays and there's no such thing as a linux virus.