A good and usefull thread this one. Not being a computer tech I tend to follow or try what others recommend. I'm stuck with IE8 on this XP system and have tried firefox and found, while it works well when first installed it soon starts to slow.
Skybird made some good points about chrome, maybe I should look there. But I do try to keep away from google in truth.
Bots seem to be the biggest single issue for XP and IE8, I just installed Spybot Search and Destroy which unearthed three bots that Security Essentials failed to spot, I recon the bots came through firefox, one from a well known download centre.
My favourite apps right now: Spybot S&D, CCleaner, Revo uninstaller, Defragger, all freebee's but I am looking into subscribing with Spybot as they do a virus plugin which might replace Security Essentials.
I hope this thread keeps going and maybe expands into a kind of pros and cons type of thread. Things change so fast it's hard to find time to explore or discover new apps quick enough.
thanks all
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