Need advice on which anti-virus and other protection (ie. norton systemworks, black ice, firewall ect.) that I need for surfing the web and downloading. Please explain why you like/dislike certain products.

get mcafee virus scan 6 pro (dont use their firewall, it's horrible) and if you want a software firewall, get zone alarm plus, but i reccomend a hardware firewall, software firewalls can slow down your connection.

Norton Antivirus for theyre strong research services, a very professional program. An excelent live updating sytem. Zone Alarm as firewall. the first program in this matter. Try also AVG from www.grisoft.com a very good antivirus free of charge (a Czech-American company). It works very well with Norton Antivirus on the same machine in the same time. The Cleaner, search on Google, fantastic anti Trojan Horses. Very good live update.

Please use the Computer Security forum for questions like this. I'll move your post there.

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I would go with Ageamiu, AVG does its job well and is free. for a decent firewall (software) go with either Zonealarm or Tiny www.zonealarm.com or http://www.tinysoftware.com/

If you are using SMP then you will have to go with Tiny, I have heard that ZA doesn't work with dual CPUs............or do you know different.