I recently got back into digi scrapping. I love the freebies but within the last 60 days I have had not one but two virus crashes.

I take my laptop to my pc guy and he tells me to stop downloading from host file sites. Each time my laptop crashes due to DL virus it cost me $50s.

Whats a digi freebie freak to do?

any advise? I have norton and another windows virus dector.
Thanks in advance, Tamie