Preparing Your PC

In a 2007 CNET interview Google revealed that it had carried out in­depth research on 4.5 million web sites and found that about one in ten web pages could successfully "drive-by download" a Trojan horse virus onto a visitor's computer.

That's a heck of a lot of dangerous websites. On a good day you can visit a thousand sites using traffic exchanges. When visiting that many sites you are bound to run into some problems.
It's not nearly as bad as it was a few years ago. Most traffic exchange owners work very hard to keep their sites free of these dangers. However, nobody is perfect.
Does that mean your computer is going to get a virus if you use a traffic exchange? Not if you protect yourself first!

These are things that all Internet users need to be aware of. If you are on the Internet today and your computer is not properly protected it is only a matter of time before your computer gets infected with something nasty.

There are plenty of anti-virus programs on the market. I will just share with you the two that I use. If you don't already have something do yourself a favor and download AVG Free Antivirus and PC Tools Spyware Doctor. Both of these programs are free and should protect you from 99% of the harmful websites out there.

As long your computer is properly protected you shouldn't have to worry about anything terrible happening to your computer while using traffic exchange programs.