Who's Astley?
He's a wanna-be singer who got kicked out of the Deep Purple auditions (when they were looking for a new vocalist after Ian Gillan) for looking too much like a red-headed poof
ARSclip................ If you're English, that's funny, right there!!
Down in Oz, too.... if you got a half decent funny bone
Now back to business.....
SUPERAntispyware is one I've recently found to be quite effective against the nasties on the net. The only [small] issue is a splash screen at startup if you have it loaded in the systray... but it only lasts a few seconds and is relatively unobtrusive.
Spybot Search and Destroy... not just for the spyware scanner, but for the teatimer component which immunizes your system against internet nasties in real time... nips 'em in the bud before they can get in. Also on the Spybot site are other utilities for manual searches of files and the registry... a file analyser and a bootable CD for files that cannot be clean while the system is running.
DVD Profiler.... for cataloging your DVD collection with cover pics, plot synopsis and cast lists, etc. It is shareware and the paid version offers more options, but the free version is still quite useful, especially if you have a large collection.
Iobit's Smart Defrag ... is one of the best defraggers out there. It has 3 defrag options [Standard, Optimize and Deep Optimize] and keeps HDD's running at optimal performance.
