Keller Rohrback Announces Investigation of Ascentive, LLC Regarding Computer Software Products – Yahoo Finance

The investigation focuses on Ascentive’s sale and advertising of software products on the internet that claim to enhance computer performance and protect against viruses. Ascentive represents that computer users are at risk to computer viruses and need …
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what else can i do to improve security on my network and computer?

I have installed trend micro virus 2007, enabled windows firewall, installed a program to wipe my cache, and encrypt all my files with 256 bit encryption. what else can i do to improve my privacy and security on my computer. I was also wondering if there is a way to protect my wireless network more than i am right now than just with the pass key?
I have a two year old Sony VAIO notebook with windows vista home premium, and a seven year old dell desktop running XP hime SP2.
I meant to say XP Home SP2

Experts fear cyberspammers are plotting new attack modes – USA Today

The spam that anti-virus giant Symantec filters from the e-mail systems at large organizations plummeted to 47 billion per day, down from a daily average of 131 billion per day in 2010. Other e-mail security firms reported a similar drop-off. On Monday …
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Someone loaded AVG security on my computer and my computer is very slow now?

I got a virus and took my mini laptop to have the virus removed and after removing the virus they loaded AVG security on my computer. Now my computer is painfully slow. I already had Microsoft essentials. I’m thinking of deleting AVG because of the way my computer now runs. Isn’t Microsoft essentials enough? I ran a scan on Microsoft essentials and it found an infection and deleted it. Apparently AVG didn’t catch it. Do all security programs slow down the computer?