Ok well I just had to give my comp to a friend for about a week so he could track down and repair it due to some nasty virus. Now that my comp is back up and running again i really really really want to avoid a repeat. After asking my friend what the best virus blocking program was, I learned how different ones protect in different ways. He also told me that while more is generally better, some of these programs tend to conflict with each other and to go here to find out the best combo.

SO I'm here and this is my question:

What wold be the best, in your guys opinion, combination of firewall, pop-up blocker, virus scanner etc. that i can get on my computer without them conflicting with each other? I would prefer at this point to have as many as i can. Thanks in advance.