Filter your HTTP traffic

Today 1 in 20 websites are malicious. You visit them and you are bound to download trojan or malicious software than can give control of your system and resources to bad guys. When choosing an antivirus verify if it supports filtering HTTP traffic to malicious sites. Also your keep your browsers which ever you use upto date with patches as the exploits in these browsers are most commonly used as an attack platform to gain control on the systems.