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Originally Posted by Seric View Post
Firewall in my router.

Anti-Virus is bloat-ware crap. I have never run anit-virus longer than two days and I've never had a virus. Just be careful what you open and don't use file sharing programs. If I really need something bad, I hop on IRC and get a secure FTP transfer from people NOT in a channel where "warez" is part of the name.

That said;

GIMP
Firefox
Audacity
PuTTy
FileZilla
Winamp Pro

Pretty standard stuff for an old Interweb warrior.
Bloatware? You must only receive email from really smart people as well. Avast is worth it's weight in gold. The only time I ever know it's there is when it notifies me that it updated or in the rare cases where it finds something.
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