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Here are some more, sorted by last release date:

http://www.freedrweb.com/livecd
(Dr Web, February 2009)
http://dnl-eu3.kaspersky-labs.com/devbuilds/RescueDisk/
(Kaspersky December 2008)
http://www.f-secure.com/linux-weblog/2008/11/
(FSecure November 2008)
http://free-av.de/en/tools/12/avira_antivir_rescue_system.html
(Avira, ???)
http://www.mwti.net/products/mwav/mwav.asp
(MicroWorld, ???)

I would recommend Avira AntiVir [1]. It is free for personal use too. The was most impressed of the speed. I used Avira AntiVir all the time before I moved to Linux.

[1] http://www.free-av.de/en/index.html

I always put Anti-Vir on Microsoft based PC's It's German and very efficient at what it does.
It has a real-time scanner as well that uses about 3% on a 2 GHz Celeron
They have also developed a version for *nix type systems for e-mail scanning
You can definitely do worse than this crowd

sorry, forgot to mention that I was talking about Antivir Personal Edition in the second paragraph. There's an English version available btw. I should pay more attention to the preview button I guess...

Google Earth is more of a "fun" program. Nice to toy around once in a while, but nothing I have always installed.
Picasa is nifty. A free image editor is always nice.
Google Pack Screensaver Don't really care about that one. I usually blank my screen.
Google Desktop I don't use since I have "order in my chaos"(tm) and don't really like to things hooked into everything.
Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer will be a godsend for all IE unsers, but I don't need it since I do Firefox.

Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar guess this will make Firefox's markedshare do another jump.
Norton Antivirus 2005 Special Edition - personally I use AntiVirus Personal Editon, its free and quite good, but if I think about all the PCs without any up-to-date protection out there its a real godsend.
Ad-Aware SE Personal 4236 programs found? If you have used IE, not used a virusscanner and/or have a "shiny, let's click it" PC user this thing will cleanse your system. Otherwise once every 3 months is sufficient.
Adobe Reader 7 A no-brainer, one of the most portable formats around (let's see how Open Document spreads), .doc eat your heart out.

The first FIVE installs on any Windows system are in that order:

- a personal firewall, because you need one in order to connect an unpatched system to the net and survive
- all applicable service packs and security patches, approximately the size of the original OS install
- Antispy
- Ad Aware
- Anti Virus Program

That being finished, four hours later if you don't happen to have a prepared ghostable image, you can begin to actually install useful stuff.

This is free as in beer for private home use. Including updates twice a week. You Sir are a clueless faggot...

AntiVir (free-as-in-beer version here) detects it too. Their removal tool also takes care of it.

sorry my typo...

antivir... here

free anti virus for personal use, no pay for updates or vir-def files... and is usually 60% better than anything norton or the others make.

in fact it uses less system resources from what I see... I've switched to it completely for all windows systems.. and convinced my office to do the same.

it is. read the article and you will find out for yourself.
IT'S THAT STUPID CLICK-THE-ATTACHMENT-WHOSE-NAME-SOUNDS-INTERESTING SCHEME. NOTHING SPECIAL HERE -
user has to click on bogus scr-file with bogus name and bogus file size.
if one cannot distinguish any "good" file from a faked one with X
no person here has tried to understand the virus' concept and did just comment bogus like "we don' need no filesharing we are all honest" or "music industry is to blame" and the like.
i loaded my kazaa LiTE (only stupid people use the "real" spyware-infested original) and searched for *.scr (the extension of the virii files) and voilà X thousand hits.

summary: the virus is NOT clever, user action IS necessary in EVERY case of infection. it closely resembles the outlook-attachment-virii-scheme, so it can only infect users that: a) ignores extension b) has its extensions still hidden in windows c) don't cares

this virus relies on the fact that windows can RUN many more files than most people think. maybe some online-virus-scanners check exe, com, dll, doc, xls, boot-sectors, MBRs etc. files (mine (free for personal use) does include scr, btw) but of course PEOPLE do not suspect all other files to be malicious.
windows can execute some even nastier things: LNK(!), PIF(LNK&PIF-extension is HIDDEN even when UNHIDE extension is selected. to show pif and lnk exts the use of REGEDIT can't be avoided), SCR, EXE, COM (d'oh!), HTA (html-executable/precompiled html(?)) and a lot more. but pif and lnk's are the best to hide your malicious code. even i tripped in an XYZ.jpg.pif - worm once. (shame on me) try to send someone you favorite fun-program (no virus, but looks like one maybe) and name it XYZ.jpg.pif and send it via outlook. (the victim must use outlook express prior to version 6 and the file must not exceed normal JPG file sizes or it will be too obvious.) soo and then the file arrives at the victim in his outlook, but outlook prior to version IE6 *hides* the PIF-extension of the file if you choose download/save attachment... - so everyone assumes "jpg is safe" and opens it directly. or is cautios and saves it on disk and opens it from there. but even then the .pif is hidden, the only thing the person can spot then is the "MS-DOS"-like symbol of the well known jpg-file...

don't execute anything you download.
have your always-on virus scanner scan all files if in doubt. yes that will cost performance. but reinstall is a lot more time and you guys probably won't notice any lag on that ATA-133 hd's anyway.