Consumer Reports says that over the past two years, consumers have spent $7.8 billion to repair or replace computers infected with spyware or viruses. That number seems ridiculously high, unless it’s just a result of loads of people chucking their computers and buying new ones. Maybe it means that people are paying too much to have some technician run an anti-spyware program on their computer. Well, that can be avoided.

Here are three things you can do to save $7.8 billion dollars:

1. Get AVG Free. This is a small, simple virus program that is effective without bogging down your system like Norton or McAfee. It is also 1000% less annoying.
2. Don’t open strange emails.
3. Get Firefox. This is hands-down the best way to avoid getting spyware or viruses on your computer. Also, once you get the hang of it and learn all the features like tabbed browsing, you’ll wonder how you ever used Internet Explorer in the first place.

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