Fox News's CyberGuy column offers a plain-English guide to choosing antivirus software, aimed at readers who find product pages cluttered with jargon, lab scores and lengthy feature lists. The piece argues that with scammers increasingly using fake texts, phishing emails, bogus websites and infected downloads to steal money, passwords or personal data, picking effective protection matters more than ever, but this need not require technical expertise.

The article says a strong antivirus programme should run quietly in the background while automatically monitoring for threats, blocking malware and ransomware, and providing firewall protection, with real-time scanning of activity while browsing. It also promotes a separate free "Sick of Spam?" class from the CyberGuy team, offering a replay and checklist covering ways to cut robocalls, spam texts and junk email.