What You Said: Malware Fighting Tips and Tricks

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Published on Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:00:00 +0000 Indexed on 2011/03/04 23:27 UTC
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Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite malware fighting tricks. Now we’re back to highlight some of the tips and tricks you shared.

Our Ask the Readers series gives our awesome and technologically literate readers a chance to show off their know-how. Today we’re rounding up some of the tips and tricks from Wednesday’s Ask the Reader post What Are Your Best Malware Fighting Tricks and highlighting them here.

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