I recently made the mistake of downloading a program that brought with it a whole lot of malware.  Once I started trying to surf the Internet with these applications, things became intolerable – anything I researched would result in a new popup from companies trying to sell me products with similar products related to my search, and one screen after another would start popping up.  One forgets how damaging this can be to your computer, and if you don’t have a few basic skills, it can be almost impossible to get it off one’s computer.  The programs load a whole lot of other programs onto your computer and adding and removing them under the control panel becomes very difficult.  Some of the programs these days are so vicious that even when you try to uninstall them, they refuse to uninstall unless you load another program at the same time.  You have to agree to load that other program and then not accept their conditions.  To cut a long story short, while I am not an expert on computers, I certainly have a reasonable degree of skill, and it took me well over an two hours to rid my computer of all the programs.  I really think it is absolute abuse and that companies who create and provide such software should face lawsuits and legal action.  It can never be acceptable that obstacles are put in your path when you try to uninstall such programs from your own devices.