Making money online is one of the most popular topics on the internet today, but unfortunately some of those people who claim to know how to make money online, also want to make money from you by selling you the information that can be obtained for free on the internet. Here are some of the easy ways to make money on the internet, but don’t be fooled, making money requires a little effort.

• Blogging - Blogging is a great way to generate some money if you can write and enjoy doing it. This is one of the most popular ways of making money so it’s a little crowded but if you can come up with a good topic,  great design and good content then you can do it. Some great blogs like TechCrunch are making over $200,000 a month. Yes, this is not a typo, a month through private ad sales and CPC advertising. So you should consider this.
• Ebay – This shouldn’t be new to you because it has existed for a long time. Look around your house and if you find anything you dont need and has some value on it, then put it up on ebay. If you have some antiques that you want to get rid of, try ebay. A lot of people have made thousands from old things they thought weren’t worth anything so why shouldn’t you.
• Freelance Jobs – A freelancer simply finds a project, does it and gets paid on completion then does it again until he stops. Freelancing jobs can include data entry, web design, writer, research, photography etc. To search for projects available, you can use sites like guru, scriptlance, and a lot more you can find on Google.
• Start A Website – Starting a website isn’t that hard, if you don’t know how to make one,  just hire a designer or use ready made templates and CMS like Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla. Websites make money by selling private ad space, promoting products or by using CPC ad networks like google adsense. This business will never die because just imagine an internet without any websites to go to. If you have a unique idea, companies might even offer you millions to buy your website.
• Contests - There are a lot of contests that pay anywhere from $5 to over $1000. This contests include logo design, banner design, name suggestions, T-shirt design, backgrounds and so on.  To participate in one just go to  free sites like digital point forums or 99designs.
• Sell Stock Photos – Just buy a nice camera and take nice pictures and sell them to stock photo websites. It doesn’t have to be a real photo taken somewhere,  you can make pictures of your computer with programs like Photoshop then sell them to sites like istockphoto.
• Writer – This is another great way to make money will little effort. There are tons of blogs out there that are looking for writers to write for them, so if you can write great posts,  then you should try this. To find one just go to popular blogs and check if they need one or go to forums like digital point forums and post that you are available. They can earn $10 a post or more.
• Youtube - This one requires some creativity. Start a video blog or just post videos that gets a lot of views and Youtube will share the revenue they make from the ads displayed with you through their revenue sharing program.
• Making  Templates And Scripts – If you have some talent in web designing, then you can create templates for popular platforms like Wordpress, Blogger, Drupal, and  Joomla and sell them. Wordpress themes can go as high as $300, even more. You can also create website scripts that do certain things and sell them  to people who need them.

• Dig though Digg – Digg is good place to find interesting things. Just go to the site and checkout the most dugg links in 24hrs, 7days, 30days or 365days. You never know what you can find there, could be a funny video, photo or unusual things.

• Watch viral videos – Ever since Youtube became popular, people have created a lot of viral videos that are really fun to watch. You can also find viral videos on many other video sharing sites like Metacafe, DailyMotion e.t.c.

• Play flash games – Flash games can be really addictive and there are tons of them online. Find the one you like and enjoy. Bullet time fighting is a good one to start with

• Look at funny pictures – Funny pictures aren’t hard to find these days. Fail blog is a good one you can check out. There is also icanhascheezburger which has funny cat pictures.

• Chat Online- Chat online with your friends or make new friends. You can chat on Facebook, Myspace, Yahoo Messenger and many other chat services. But be careful with who you chat with, there are creepers online.

• Text to speech online – Yes, this is a very good one, go to a website that converts text to speech and play around with it. Try different voices or paste some rap lyrics and enjoy the show. Here are some good ones. AT&T text to speech, Cepstral text to speech

• Yahoo Answers – Whether you want to ask questions or answer someone’s question, you can do it on yahoo answers and it can be fun. So go there and accumulate some points.

• Start a blog/website – Blogging isn’t bad. If you are passionate about something then you can start a free blog at Blogger and also make some money at the same time

People make computer viruses to cripple a computer or a network. To some people it makes them to feel great and superior and others do it as a punishment for somebody or something they hate.

Viruses like spywares can also be used to steal personal information like credit numbers, social security and email addresses. People who do this can profit by selling your information to criminals and hackers who pays them.

Viruses can also be used to make money. There are some fake anti-virus softwares that installs themselves on your computer and then fake scans your computer and tell you that it has found viruses. They will often ask you to buy the full version of their software so that they can remove the viruses for you. Those are just people looking for money.

Other viruses like adwares will display advertisements like popups on your computer. Some will hijack your search engine and display fake results.

Some known viruses are:

• Home Antivirus 2009 – It is a fake antivirus that can install itself on your computer.
• CoolWebSearch – Adware that displays advertisements and hijacks search engines
• SystemCop – Fake antivirus
• Zango – Adware
• Vundo – Trojan

Various patches and removal tools have been issued by nearly every major antivirus company, and instructions for removing Conficker from your computer and other equipment can be found on the web. The virus only affects Windows-based PCs, not Macs. The virus does block users from accessing Microsoft’s website, which is one of the ways to tell if your computer has been infected.