AV-FireWall-Anti-SPAM Recommendations

[Haze]

HI All,
Well I have my new Latitude D830, just looking for any security software recommendations. I use ZAP as my firewall, and as it was already registered for 2 years, have just continued with its subscription. I did use Grisoft's Free AV and SpySweeper, SpamBot S&D too, on my old lappy, but wondered if anyone had any recommendations even if it is for the Firewall too.

Cheers
Andy

[sarahA]

Avast Antivirus, Spybot S&D

[Jeep Stone]

Seconded, although the new Norton is actually a lot lighter on it's feet than previous.

[Haze]

I went with the AVG, but will have another look at Avast....

[Barney McGrew]

I have always paid for Antivirus software and have used AVG for the past 3 years. However, I did like the look of Avast, and have just purchased the professional version a month ago. It sits there in the background and works very well. As much as AVG is classed as not using much in the way of resources, I have seen an increase in my PC speed since using Avast, so guess its even less hungry.

[Tanthalas]

I'm using nVidia's firewall, weirdly enough.  Came with the motherboard.  It's not bad, though I'm not sure I like the idea of a web interface.

AV software has always been more of a system-slowing annoyance than a saviour for me in the past, so I recommend Trend Micro's HouseCall for the odd scan, other than that I run nothing.

For anti-spyware I give it the odd run with Spybot S&D.

For anti-spam, I just use Thunderbird.