So many companies trying to make money by selling you products to keep your computer safe and clean, all of which are freely available.
Nothing is safe, lock up your computer.
Stop snooping not only from hack kids but also corporate spying.
Security is a three tier affair, one firewall, one anti-virus and as much adware/spyware removal software as you feel needed?
Free Software
Firewalls
PC Tools Firewall Plus
ZoneAlarm Free Firewall
Comodo Free Firewall Pro
SoftPerfect Personal Firewall
Anti-Virus
Avast 4 Home Edition
AVG Anti-Virus Free
ClamAV For Windows
BitDefender 10 Free Edition
Avira AntiVir Personal
Anti-Adware/Spyware
SUPERAntiSpyware
Spybot-S&D
Ad-Aware 2008 Free
SpywareBlaster 4.1
Winpooch
Browsers
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Avant
Email Client
Thunderbird
Utilities
CCleaner
Adblock Plus Firefox Add-on
Startup Inspector
SpeedFan
CPU-Z
Auslogics Disk Defrag
WinDirStat
Parental Control Bar
Ultimate Boot CD
Tight VNC
7-Zip
Norton Removal Tool
Fasterfox Firefox Add-on Network Tweak
SPEEDTEST
Tech Support Guy Forum
How to stop spam, without the use of third party software snooping.
Download Mozilla Thunderbird, set up a Google Mail account, now forward all your email accounts to the Google mail account and set up Thunderbird with your Google account.