Firewall: Lavasoft Personal Firewall. I used to use ZoneAlarm until it made TF2 randomly freeze/lag for ~10 seconds a few times per hour (sometimes several times in a few minutes!). With LPF, I highly recommend turning off automatic updates. There's a bug that makes it chew up the CPU, constantly trying to update.
For the virus scanner, I use ESET NOD32. I have it off most of the time, as it slows down my crappy computer, and sometimes slows down net access badly on this POS if I'm also running bittorrent (which is most of the time). It also fucks with GOG game downloads (unless they're really small), whether via browser, download manager or GOG Downloader, even though I exclude the relevant directories. I tend not to go cruising porn/warez/other suspect sites, and I always scan stuff before installing or running for the first time.
Other software: CCleaner, Spywareblaster, Spybot, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and Norton Ghost 14.0.
I also run PeerBlock when I have bittorrent going. I didn't appreciate it so much until I got a nice little copyright email from my ISP, and realised from the time of the automated report they had forwarded that I had disabled PeerBlock while I was downloading a film via bittorrent (hey, I've gotta use up my 200 Gig/month quota somehow). I was getting sick of having to allow several IPs for a site I was accessing and forgot to turn it back on.
Post edited June 04, 2010 by Drat