Hi CharleyO,
While they are declaring their program is malware free, Kazaa for instance gives you malware you cannot shut down, only if you are a malware fighter or get help from specific tools. But you would not like to have the SpyFalcon or like installs there on the first place, would you folks? There is a perfectly legit way to do this, and it is malware free but heavily moderated, and that is use Usenet, but you have to subscribe.
People like to scare you and say the Internet is not a safe place. The sites that are the source of malware aren't that many, and it is like in the real world, go to a back alley, and you can get clubbered over the head. If you take your precautions (layered protection and in-browser pre-scanning) you can surf with not too many risks. It is the masses of un-educated people that make the Internet an unsafe place, they always have three options: click right, click left or ignore, until the clicking gives out, because their machines have come to a halt and are taken to the repair man or just dumped by the road-side. A sorry state of affairs. We try to teach them better ways, but it is a long struggle to achieve.
polonus
