Tuesday, August 24, 2010

With Free Movie Downloads Watch Out For Viruses

By Charmaine Chan

The internet is full of websites that offer free movie downloads, and yes - it's true you can find just about any movie you want if you look long enough. They can range from cute rated "G" flicks to those you wouldn't want to watch with your grandparents. But you have to be careful - especially these days - in looking for sites that offer the latest and greatest at no cost to you. Sometimes "something for nothing" is nothing you want. So here are a few tips to keep in mind when web surfing, that could save you from experiencing "computer home theater" regret:

Make sure what they're offering is really at no-cost to you: Know the word "free" is used in many contexts in order to lure customers into buying things like movie memberships. A fact that's often concealed until someone has already spent hours searching online before finding a promising site, only to be faced with a mind-numbing membership form that's really a sign-up commitment in disguise. He will get a FREE trial membership - but those few days will cost him three months in advance. At this point, the mentally exhausted person hits "delete" in frustration and gives up, or has to start over.

An easy way to cut down on wasted hours hitting brick walls is to be specific in your keyword selection. Typing in "One hundred percent, no obligation EVER free movie downloads", when looking for the free sites, should turn up the existing few that actually give a person something for nothing.

Be prepared to run into snafus everywhere - Once you actually find a free film site, the next job is to locate a download link that will get you what you want. Although sometimes you can find one immediately, and it goes off without any problems, most of the time you'll have to put in some leg work to get it. You may run into things like broken download links, or ones that lead you to other sites so you can purchase their "free" movie torrent program, or worst of all - to the announcement that the page you want is no longer available.

Be sure you know what type of operating system you're on before you click a download - When you finally get to the download section for your movie, you may be asked to select a specific one based on your computer's operating system. Make sure you pick the right one, or your computer won't be able to read the data code, and could even freeze up - leaving you back at square one.

Always download information from the internet onto a flash drive - As you know, one must be extra careful these days with all the things that can contaminate a system. This is especially true for those whose computers lack an on-the-spot- virus program that removes threats as they come up.

Whenever possible, use a flash drive for everything you save to computer from the internet - and scan it before you open it, of course. If you don't have a flash drive available, then at save internet downloads to a file folder on your computer, and be careful that it's scanned for errors or threats before you attempt to view the contents.

You can see that there are quite a few things to be aware of when looking for free movie downloads online. But maybe the most important thing you can remember is a lot of times getting something for nothing really means paying big in some way, somewhere down the line. - 40732

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