What do you do to clean and protect your computer?

CCleaner, Malwarebytes, Spyware Doctor.

I ditched my PC and bought an iMac.

I only use Windows for games; otherwise I’m in Linux. I have two routers that do firewall duty.

CCleaner, Spybot Search & Destroy, Adaware, and Malwarebytes.

@erichw1504 All those are in my computer as well. I have not had to run Malwarebytes in a long long time! Maybe I should for old times sake

I use the same programmes as @erichw1504 and I’ve never had a problem. Oh, I also you HijackThis.

Home: Norton Security Suite; CCleaner, Win7 Defrag set automatically weekly. Firewall Win7 & Cisco
Know what links you are clicking or what you download.
Block your Spam
Don’t open an email that looks or sounds suspicious
Work:I am a decision maker for large enterprise of +100,000 PC and 2,000 servers
Junniper Firewall
Symantec Endpoint Protection for PC
McAfee Groupshield for Servers.
Messagelabs email scanning

Norton 360 for the home PC & laptop. The other laptop has McAfee on it.

Easy Off Bam to clean and Mr. T to protect.

Spyware Doctor for me :-/

Microsoft Security Essentials. Don’t have any cleaning software, but maybe I should look into that…

On my MacBook: clean-my-Mac and onyx.

I leave the side panel of my main desktop machine open most of the time, so I have to physically clean it pretty frequently. I use a can of air to blast out dust and a dryer sheet for when I need to wipe things.
I almost never deal with Windows anymore, so my advice may be obsolete- but I use MSSE and Spybot S&D, and ClamAV. I also force all users to have separate accounts and enforce the rule of least privilege, and set up automatic updates to run daily. Windows’ built-in firewall is adequate as far as I know, but make sure that no ports are open unless your users need them. On any sensitive system I recommend the use of a HIDS like Tripwire.
I’ve never had to administer a Mac, but I expect that they are similar to Linux in terms of terminal commands and logfiles.
On Linux, the rule of least privilege applies again, but most distributions enforce or at least strongly suggest this anyway- I’m pretty sure most Linux users at least know not to run as root, and Ubuntu users don’t even get the option by default. iptables, the Linux kernel’s built-in firewall, is powerful but very complex. Luckily there are a bunch of GUI tools to manage it. I use Firestarter when I just want to poke a quick hole in the firewall, it’s a simple, easy interface. There are also a great many HIDS tools for Linux, but I don’t use them except for servers exposed to the Internet. Mostly I just check logfiles every so often: /var/log/messages and particularly /var/log/btmp.

Web of Trust! http://www.mywot.com/

Food for thought: http://windowssecrets.com/2011/04/07/01-LizaMoon-infection-a-blow-by-blow-account/#story1

I rely mostly on my daily AVG scan lol, but every now and then I use the F Secure online scanner. It’s a bit more thorough. All this works good enough for me, although I should probably do more…still, had this old machine for the past five years lmao and this hasn’t failed me yet.

@Cruiser I have the same programs on my desktop PC that you use.
I have a question though; I recently got a netbook and I want to get the same kind of protect there. I’m wondering if those programs might be too big for my netbook and really slow it down or make it not function as it should.
I have a Acer 10.1” Netbook PC, with # Intel Atom N550 processor
1.5GHz, 667MHz Front Side Bus, 1MB L2 Cache, 2GB DDR3 SDRAM system memory, # 320GB SATA hard drive, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Edition. It’s new and I am just running the McAfee trial security that came on it.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should do to protect this little netbook. I bought it for travel/portability, and it’s not my main computer, but I do want to keep it running smoothly and trouble-free.