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Saint_Chris

On saturday my computer just wouldnt' start up.

Took it to a friend who yesterday, re-formatted it

I only had 256 of ram he's now doubled that.

I only have on the computer at moment

Internet explorer
my documetns (empty)
re-cycle bin
and i tunes.

last night i downloaded

zone alarm
avg free anti-virus
spyware blaster
superanti spyware free edition

is there anything else i should have on.

thanks

TechTerry

It looks ok, just dont install too much security as security software can slowdown your computer if you have too much of it.

Saint_Chris

would you keep all of the above

or would you change any of them to another.

Only i wondered if kapersky anti virus was better than avg

thanks

TechTerry

kapersky is one of the best out their, im using it myself, has better detection rates than all the leading ( Mcafee, norton, AVG, etc )

BillScarab

...but you have to pay for it, so you need to decide whatis more important to you the cost or the detection rate.

Personally if I was paying for AV I'd go with NOD32, currently I use AntiVir which is free.

TechTerry

NOD32 was good, but i dont feel it to be as good kaspersky, i also beleive that the experts are now choosing kaspersky over NOD32, herd good and very bad things about AntiVir, I use Avast on the old computer that hardly gets any use, wasent worth me buying a licence for it.

spakkker

You can always do the free online kaspersky scan - though it doesn't remove anything, you must note what it finds and manually delete it.
This site- http://majorgeeks.com/ -is a source of clean downloads and also has info on the no. of downloads and a rating for each program. Also a site which gives useful system info is- http://pcpitstop.com/pcpitstop/default.asp
Best thing with a new install is that with hindsight you know which progs you need/use, which progs you like and which you can live without.

Bongedone

You can speed up your computer by turning off the sheduled scan on AVG. Just do a manual one every now and then.

Reggie_Rebel

I'd have Open Office on as well

weegie.geek

I'd put firefox on there too.

hubris

If you want...

CD/DVD burning software: http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/
Sumatra PDF reader is much smaller and faster than Adobe PDF reader: http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/
PDFCreator creates pdfs from any document you can print: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

All of the above are Open Source, and free of charge. Do a search for more info.