Yeah, running a few doesn't

greg — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:58:58 +0000

Yeah, running a few doesn't hurt as you say, some might catch something another misses.

Although, prevention rather than cure is better, be careful what you click on or download/install, then you don't need to worry about what might be on your system.

A good antivirus and firewall and discipline to what you install or even click on in the internet and you shouldn't get any issues.

Spybot is excellent I also

decibel.places — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:47:21 +0000

Spybot is excellent

I also use AdAware and Hazard Shield

For AV I use Avast

all free, some catch malware that others miss...

Never heard of it myself.

greg — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:38:07 +0000

Never heard of it myself. Although a little investigation seems to verify the same as the info in your link, that a name almost the same as yours belongs to Iris Antivirus.
Do you have this installed?

An option is to download Spybot Search and Destroy. It's decent software and will check if you have any spyware or adware (which is often a reason why PC's run slowly) and also it shows you startup processes and usually gives info about the software they belong to and if are nasties or not