Some programs I have found to be helpful or at least I have come to think of as being pretty damn good, for me at least.
Comodo Firewall Pro - they say this one is probably the best of the free ones. I went with the reviews. For all that's involved in the program I'd say yes. It certainly beats the free version of Zone Alarm.
Avira AntiVir Personal Edtion Classic - I like this program. I've been using it for some time.
Spybot - good proggie. Like the immunize part.
Spyware Terminator - I like the real time shield in this program that's damn handy. Although I don't do as much 'surfing the web' as I use to back in the day I'd say this program will save people on numerous occassions as it has done for me. This and Spybot is a good combo.
Advanced Windows Care V2 Personal - it's a good little utility program I found on CNET/Download. Spyware Removal/Security Defense/Registry Fix/System optimization/Startup manage/Privacy Sweep/Junk Files Cleanup.
SpeedUpMyPC 3 - an interesting program. Don't really know how much good it actually does. (this program isn't free though it'll only scan, you have to buy, or not)
Auslogics Disk Defrag - although I do have my hard drives formated for NTFS and as they say (I'm not certified in the tech fields just a fairly well informed user, or somewhere there abouts, everyone should be) there isn't a whole lot of fragging going on. This little program was pretty fast for a defrag. It would certainly have taken a great deal longer if I left it up to Microsoft's built in one, that's for certain. Fragmentation was of course very little but I did it anyway just for the hell of it.
Overall I dig these. Seems fine to me. Everyone else probably has there own little setup that's better or somewhere close.
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CCleaner (Kinda security related more privacy and speed boosting)
Defraggler
HijackThis
Eraser (used to delete viruses or thats what I use it for)
WireShark (Network analysis I use this for checking my network for any successful intruders)
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