What's the best Pop-Up Blocker? Anti-Virus Software? Anti-Spyware Software?

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Pretty much depends on your system, personally I stay away from all things bloatware, like symantec products but nowdays most things are pretty bloaty. Things that work for me are Mozilla ( I find it a lot more stable than ie, esp ie7), ccleaner, spybot, adaware, hijack this and avg, although with avg you have to disable the auto scheduler, other than that, they get the job done but it depends on your system, some apps conflict with others and different OS, this works for me but it might not for you, hope this helps @least 1 person out there.
P.S (If you visit pron sites and warez etc you are gonna get a lot of nasties, so you need a lot of these apps!)

i have tried Norton McAfee and free AVG. and finally installed CA Internet Security Plus and now i'm happy.

thanks many times over. i say ask this guy/com, they know they stuff. thanks for great pointer's that i can understand for a 2 tic's of your time. leeds u.k [complete first timer,only had comp. 2/3 mths and self taught. it's hard going but i'll get there ...scream..] thanks again.

Is it ok to have Norton 360 and XofspySE at the same time or is that not the greatest idea??

It may be hard to rank anti-virus (etc) ware but how about when it is freeware. I have been very happy with Comodo.com but there must be others - can they be ranked?

I use Avast! antivirus and have just purchased Uniblue Spyeraser. Avast! has an antispyware provider as well but when I ran Spyeraser it did find some adware as well as a couple of Trojans. Can I leave both programs running at the same time or should I disable the Avast! antispyware provider and let Spyeraser do that job?

I too use Avast Anti-Virus and am pretty happy with it - after all, it's FREE. In addition I use Comodo BoClean, Malwarebytes Free, a2Free, and finally Doctor Spyware Free. All of these are free utilities and have kept my computer free from cyber nasties. As for a firewall I use the in-built XP firewall as all other firewalls that I've tried cause havoc with Microsoft Updates and connection to the internet. Ashampoo free was the only firewall not to mess up with my computer, but, too often it would simply breakdown - its hide feature would invariably return errors in the events viewer.

Most of these popup blockers can disrupt the web programs you run and the latest version of popup is java script which they dont work against. Try this one i found here http://www.pageoptimiser.com/blog_popups.htm its seems to work and not slow everything down

Antispyware that works very well
Super Antispyware catches the stuff others can't and it's free.
Anti-virus, I swear by AVG free and it is also free

i'm currently using spyzooka antispyware software and it's been working very fine ever since i bought mine.

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