Monsoons Must Have Programs

Free Anti-virus:
AVGAVG

Free Anti-Virusactually rated higher than AVG by CPU magazine)
Avira:Avira

Free FireWall:
ZoneAlarm:ZoneAlarm

Free FireWall:
TinyTiny FireWall

Cookie and Temp file remover:
Ccleanerccleaner

AntiSpy:
A-SquaredA-Squared

Thanks mrmonsoon. I hadn't heard of AVIRA anti virus program before. I checked out it's ratings and discovered, much to my surprise, that it IS, indeed, rated higher (by some) than AVG FREE.

Lately, I've noted that I've stumbled across a few trojans that AVG couldn't get a handle on. I had to go into the registry and "pluck" 'em out manually -- I hate having to do that. The free tool that AVIRA has on the side would have, I must assume, done that for me. Where was this when I needed it? Anyway, I thought that I'd give AVIRA a try. After all, what do I really have to lose? If I don't like it, I can always go back to AVG right?

Thanks.....good list of "must have" tools.

More Must haves:
Video Cards:
Nvidia-
NVTweakNew Name For COOLBITS

Nvidia Driver (best current)
92.91NVIDIA VIDEOCARD DRIVER

ATI Cards: (best current)
catalyst 6.9
Catalyst 6.9

[edit on 10/1/2006 by mrmonsoon]

Windows defender:
Windows defender

Windows media player 10 (for Windows XP Home)
Windows Media Player 10

Windows MEDIA Player 11 (for Windows XP Pro and WMCE)Windows Media Player 11

Free Virtual cd rom:
Virtual cd rom

Direct x 9c:
Direct X 9C

Windows Service Pack 2 for XP:
XP Service Pack 2