Cheapest way to protect your system....

[Ol Smoke]

I have been using adblockplus  for a while now.  Haven't seen it help much.

[daredevil]

Also, using browser addons tends to help.

 

adblockplus is amazing and supports a variety of browsers. Script blocking addons like No Script for Firefox allows you to stop flash players and video from playing unless it's from a website you trust.

 

How much RAM does adblockplus uses on your PC? I personally feel it's memory hogger but on systems with 16GB RAM I don't care. I installed it on my old system and it was super memory hog. I still kept it cos it removes adds like anything. 

[SiD]

Y'know, I've never really checked before.

 

I've used it both on Chrome and firefox, and I know that even alone, FF is a major resource hog. Not sure what's up with that, it there's a bad mem leak or what. I see myself hitting  1000K+ when using it for extended periods of time. I haven't noticed if adblock is adding onto that now, or if it's relatively the same. 

 

Now I must investigate.

[ajnl]

Cheapest way - don't visit porn sites

 

Well you should visit the free ones, duh.

 

I used to until I bought my new SSD.

 

I got Free AVG and never get anything, if I do it pops up and deletes/blocks it.

And I run CCleaner once in a while.

 

Ah yeah, I also use CCleaner. But that isn't really for viruses or malware.