It's destroying my computer ??

Hello everybody ! I asked a question about free anti virus programs, and some of the answers scared me a bit. That's why I reform my question a bit ; Does spyware protect program as Spyboot - and Anti virus program witch is free - destroy my computer ? Since Im a "rookie" internet user (5 months) I have some problem to tell the different between good advices and peolpe who just want to scare the bejesus of me... :) Thank you for all good answers. Backman

It's destroying my computer ??malware

anti-virus and anti-spyware progams do NOT damage your computer in anyway you'll end up in trouble if you don't have any at all.

On my computer there's five anti-spyware programs an anti-virus as well as a firewall a at the very least you must have anti-virus anti-spyware and a firewall

a good anti-virus and free is AVG get it here http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl...

AVG also do an anti-spyware which is good get that here http://free.grisoft.com/doc/20/lng/us/tp...

a free and very good firewall is zonealarm get that here http://www.zonealarm.com/store/content/c...

remember if you don't have protection your computer WILL be screwed

It's destroying my computer ??norton 360

You are absolutely right to be suspicious of some answers. Computer security is absolutely vital and I'm not trying to scare you. You say you are an absolute novice, well we all were once. Can I make a suggestion, on the Internet you do not really know who is advising you. We have all had e-mails saying we have won 拢5000 or someone in Nigeria wants to send us some cash, Yeah right. Get yourself a copy of Computeractive magazine, it's out fortnightly and I think it's still only 拢1.50. It's aimed at beginners and explained in simple detail, buy it for a few months and you will be a lot more clued up on what is what. They have a web site which is pretty good too. Good Luck and welcome to the net.
only deal with trusted companies. AVG is a very good one and there are some spyware removal options out there that has spyware embedded in them.
Hmm, anti virus/antispyware whether free or not, are designed to keep your PC up and running, not destroy them, there is however viruses etc out there that can cause a lot of damage to your PC, as these types of viruses etc were specifically wrote to do just that, so being on the Internet without such protection is not advisable at all, also a good fire wall as well as keeping your PC up to date from Microsoft is the advice I would give you, a good free anti virus is AVG free download from their site, a good free firewall, is Zone alarm, download from their web site, and a good antispyware is what you have mentioned, Spy bot search and destroy, again down loadable, I use all of these and had no trouble with any of them, hope this puts your mind at rest.
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/download...
It's fair enough to be dubious, tho' I doubt if any answers you've been given would prove harmful. Spybot S%26D, for instance is not in the slightest harmful, quite the opposite.