Re: [OT] Anti-virus / anti-spyware other essential programs?

["Andy Davies" <dajdavies@xxxxxxxxx>]

I switched to Nod32 when AVG failed to pick up a trojan last year...

On Feb 6, 2008 5:56 PM, Martin Howell <martin.howell@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'd vote for AVG, been using it for several years now with no
problems.
> I would also recommend running some anti-spyware stuff as well - I use
> Ad-aware and Spybot, because they both seem to catch different things
>
> Martin
>
> Ho Yin Ng wrote:
> > I need to upgrade / reinstall and basically reformat all my
computers
> > at home. Everything is going t*ts up.
> >
> > Main main computer only boots up when it wants to, I can't get
access
> > to my NAS on others no matter what I do. Bascially it all needs
> > resetting!
> >
> > Since I am doing this I thought I might as well get all the
essential
> > programs in on my computers.
> >
> > 1. Can someone recommend a good antivirus-spyware program? Is the
AVG
> > malware any good?
> >
> > Anything else people would recommend as must haves? I was
thinking
> > about getting something like drivermagic to manage all my drivers
and
> > download updates, and perhaps Norton Ghost so when everything
goes
> > t*ts up again I can just restore the systems?
> >
> > Running Windows XP.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Ho Yin
> >