Virus protection

[grizzle]

I use Norton Internet Security for both Firewall and Virus protection, and throw in Ad-Aware from time to time to catch the spyware crap.

Speaking of system utilities, I'm not sure with which frequency you guys defrag your drives, but if you guys are like me and are constantly installing and removing software, the drive will be pretty heavily fragmented. The default Windows defrag only does a so-so job of improving this situation. I recently came across Diskeeper and have found this to be far superior to the default Windows defrag app. I have noticed a speed increase in all my apps due to this.