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I too used to buy Norton, Mcafee and PC Cillion and have been converted to the free anti virus programs.
Of Microsoft Beta Anti Virus, Grisoft AVG, Avast and Anti Vir.
Anti Vir and Avast are close in being really good. I keep them both loaded but only use one at a time.
As far as free adware / mail ware programs.
I like Ad-Aware by Lavasoft, Spybot Search and Destroy and this new one I found is really good called Ewido.
The other three free utilities that are a must own are: Killbox, Hijack and Jv16 Power tool. These babys will identify and remove anything. Specially Killbox. Killbox will remove anything that Norton or any of them can't remove. Simply find the bug, in propertys look for it's exact location and copy it in Killbox.
I have one computer I use specifically for surfing the net and getting viruses on it just for the challenge of removal. If somebody trolled all over the net for a good solid year and did not run any anti virus software I could see picking up 500 to 1000 bugs.
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