Blaring security alerts that urge you to call a number or download a scanner are bogus, and you can shut them up easily.

Subscribing to an antivirus suite kept you safe a long time ago, but they're much less useful for most people today.

Our survey of 1,000 people reveals that more than half of them are more terrified of fake texts and impersonation fraud than computer malware.

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Most people start looking for antivirus software after something has already gone wrong: a pop-up that won’t close, a text from a “bank” that looked a little too real, or a laptop that suddenly takes ...