MS Security Essentials 2, or a free AV software ?

[Throckmorton]

I use MSE2. Its fantastic, I like it because I can just install it and never have to see it again. I don't need all the additional features of other offerings. I know how to behave on the internet.

I use MSSE but it sucks. I've gotten two viruses and my coworker who runs it managed to install two malware toolbars on IE. If you look up comparisons, you'll see MSSE is better than nothing but pretty mediocre.

 

[Rubycon]

Lean to use CLI ftp clients when fetching files across untrusted platforms and NEVER, EVER use Google to search for stuff (that's for N00bs). Nothing's going to get in there. Java is the son of Satan. 😉

Invest in dedicated hardware to create a layer so nothing truly untrusted reaches your client PCs' NIC in the first place. Use your storage IOPs and CPU cycles for beneficial things instead of scanning for malware. (which if you followed the last step would never be there in the first place!) 😛

 

[Steltek]

I'm amazed that PC Tools still exists. I used to use it on my first computer, a 486DX machine running Windows 3.1. Came on some 5 1/4" floppy disks back when floppy disks were actually floppy.

This is a different PC Tools than the one you are thinking of - that one was a very good Norton Utilities competitor (put out by Central Point Software), which was at its end bought out by Norton (who killed the product and later, as we all know, eventually itself was bought up by current owner Symantec).