Topic: Computer Hygiene

[quorn]

I was interested in which programs any of you may use to keep your software and OS clean and healthy, and what sort of regimen you follow.  I run Spybot S&D and AdAware once per week, Clam-Win Anti-Virus every other week, and a program called CrapCleaner daily.  For those of you who aren't familiar with CrapCleaner, it's a program that clears out all sorts of temp files from the OS and other applications.

--quorn

[Lil' DW]

Spy bot is great i use it twice a week but thats me and AVG is a good virus protecter and i use AVG every night so it jsut depends on what you trust and what other people say about it

[raVen]

I dont pick my nose with the mouse finger , thats the only computer hyegiene i follow 

[Smoke]

good answer rayven.

[Trlgg]

AVG and I have S D&D as well

[mentok1982]

Norton Anti-Virus 2006
Ad-aware free edition
Spybot Search and Destroy

I scan all files I download with Norton before I do anything with them.
Norton scans my entire PC at 4 AM every night and I use the anti-spyware stuff after I visit adult themed sites.

[Draconiko]

CCleaner does a good job of deleting all the unecessary files from your computer including your net files, mem dumps, chkdsk file fragments, old prefetch data, index.dat files, even any temp files for your apps like openoffice, adobe, wmp, wmm, ms management console, and spybot too
you can set it to overwrite the data several times to insure no hackers, friends , or even spouses find out what you've been doin....

it even checks registry integrity for missing shared dll's, unused file extensions, mui cache....

i use it a lot as u can tell

[dj]

I use AVG, Windows Defender, Disk Cleanup, and defrag.

[Smoke]

i use nothing besides what comes with windows,which is not alot.

[Lil' DW]

i use nothing besides what comes with windows,which is not alot.

yea i think you need some more then that smoke 

[BoneyOne]

I don't bother using anything. I just try a different OS every 3 months or so.