Good choicesWarHawk-AVG wrote:Ccleaner is a good one to clean out all the bloat and garbage that builds up...plus can blow out any unused registry entries.
http://www.piriform.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
My utilities for cleaning a computer
AVG Free
Malwarebytes
Spybot S&D
Ccleaner
Also by entering malware/harmful url's in your /etc/hosts file you can block 95% of the garbage on the internet
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; <- this place has THOUSANDS of them updated quite often!
Spywareblaster prevents SOME harmful stuff in Internet Exploder, so they don;t need removing later ...
but it needs manual updating to be free
Since forever, I've used:
CCleaner (free)
Spywareblaster (javacoolsoftware.com) (free)
Comodo firewall and antivirus and antispyware suite (free)
Spybot Search and Destroy (free)
and Firefox browser (free)
On the computers I had Microsoft Security Essentials on, it worked fine alongside the ones above.
I used to run Avast (free) and AVG (free) ... Avast found some/provided warnings AVG missed, and some AVG version conflicted with something once, but I've never had trouble with Comodo, and it works.