Any one know the best spyware, virus, firewall, software?

<p>Norton has much more to offer...IMO</p>

<p>BTW...here's a good place to start:</p>

<p><a href="http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>very informative and has most of the stuff along w/other stuff i'm testing out as well</p>

<p>if you use Ad Aware, its best to tweak it and use custom scan settings as this gets the full benefit of this program</p>

<p>avg - free</p>

<p>Ad-Aware, Spyware Begone, Stopzilla (for blocking pop-ups)</p>

<p>I use PC-cillin Internet Security2005 (from Trend Micro), which I think is really effective. It doesn't eat up too much ram and doesn't get in the way either. I got it after seeing it as first on a number of rankings, and haven't been dissapointed. It has antivirus, a firewall, vunerability checker and anti spyware. It also has some extra stuff, for example it scans my incoming mail in outlook and marks the spam with a tag so I can filter it to the junk folder. The filter is a lot more accurate than outlook's own. It can do this for webmail too. It also has wifi intrusion detection and some other stuff I don't need. Pair this with Microsoft AntiSpyware and you'll be set.</p>

<p>found the place again to customize your Ad-Aware so it does what its suppose to plus more</p>

<p>this place along w/the aforementioned got my IE up again…who hoo~ </p>

<p><a href="http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/You_Must_Read_This_Before_Posting_A_Hijackthis_Log-t2852.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/You_Must_Read_This_Before_Posting_A_Hijackthis_Log-t2852.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>For some reason I can access that website 2skys1limit3 can you recommend another plz?I didn't know I could customize my Ad-Aware I have it installed though.....I think I need to read the label more!!!</p>