norton AV corp out of the ones Ive used i like this the best

TC (the Cleaner) its expired but the registry monitor is still working. one of these days ill buy it. its really quite good. i like the pop up you get everytime a piece of software decides it wants to make a registry entry. i can accept or reject the change or it can open an editor to the key in question

Tiny FW or sometimes ZA i like tinys logs better

Ad-Aware which i run ever month or so and am always suprised at what it finds.

BitDefender for mIRC from avert although i hardly use IRC my typing sucks

packetMon from AnalogX mostly to keep an eye on any new software i install, what it wants to send out and where. my FWs set to prevent this but i still want to know anyway

i run ip-tools while im surfing and fport if i see anything strange reporting on my system.

Oh yeah! SamSpade is a must. thats the second thing i ad to a new install (AV first)

I had a port monitor on but i found that it reported everything that happened as a trojan so i uninstalled it and just reley on tiny.

I have IE set to prompt on everthing. much too severe for most i guess. every page i open on ao also requires me to left arrow and enter if i want the jave scripts to run. i accept or reject every cookie except for sites like this. its become second nature and im never bothered by pop-ups.

Bugnosis from the bugnosis.org this helps me decide if i want to come back to a site or not. if they dont value the privacy of their viewers i don't value them.