The next feature that caught my attention was search bar built into browser. It's small, sleek and simple, built into right-hand side of main toolbar beside address box. You can add many different sites to search bar and then select site you wish to search from a drop-down menu. Then it's simply a matter of typing your query in and hitting enter to be taken directly to that page and your search results. This makes searching Ebay, Google, Internet Movie DataBase, Amazon etc. very quick and easy as you can simply type in desired search criteria as you think of it and get results back fast. You can get search bar plugins for IE but they tend to take up lots of room, contain ads, and you can usually only have one site per search bar.

There are more features than I could write about here but I will tell you that Firefox has impressed me greatly. Browser hijacking: act of a malicious website script changing your homepage or search page (particularly common on IE, sites will change your default search page so that every time you type an address into your address bar their site gets a hit) is now a thing of past (at least until someone gets vicious enough to work out backdoors in Firefox, an unlikely event for at least a little while given massive market share still held by IE). Since changing over I have received substantially fewer attack notices from my Firewall. Sites load quickly, and if you get an address wrong you don't have to wait for a page to load, you just quickly get a message informing you that site doesn't exist. Then there are extensions that can be downloaded to add all sorts of new features to browser.

The only downside that I have found is fact that because IE is dominant web browser, some websites are coded in such a way that they don't work properly on other browsers. These sites are few and far between, but occasionally you will still need to fire up IE to view a page. The infrequency of this occurring is enough that it doesn't annoy me too much, but it will be nice when everything works 100%.

At end of day, it's probably not a vital switch. Both programs suffice in allowing you to plug in and explore vast world of Internet with ease and accuracy. However, it's worth a look though because what starts off initially as "I have no real reason to change back" quickly becomes "I am never going back". So, as official Firefox website encourages, "Rediscover web".

Even after taking all these precautions if your computer does get infected, then here are a few things that you can do:

Online clearing tools - are a good source of trying to clean out virus, there are many Anti-Virus websites that offer free online virus detection and removal services.

Removal tools - If you have an Anti-Virus software then you can go to website of that software and download removal tools designed specifically for virus. However, you must find out name of virus that infects your PC beforehand.

If you have a backup of all your important files, you can also consider formatting your hard disk.