Fresh pc - what to install?

[Spike2k1]

Hey you wonderful people...

Ive got a fresh pc for my birds mum and want to put all progs on before we give it to her so im not back and forth every week installing and fixing issues etc.

I need some advice on best progs to install on it.

So far im looking at installing:

Anti virus: Symantec Corp - so it dont get buggered in the next liveupdate

Adware: Adaware, spybot search and destroy, spyware balster

Or maybe actually buy the Zonelabs ZoneAlarm® INTERNET SECURITY SUITE cos its all in one.

Gonna put office 2003 on it or 2007 if i can get a good link and also if people reckon its ok to install and wont get screwed by an update.

also main real important part is installing some sort of net nanny software to stop her 9 year old and 12 year old nephew going to places they shouldnt and also to monitor thier chat logs, emails etc just to make sure they aint doing anything they shouldnt be.

If anyone can recommend any good software it'd be great. want to install this asap, surei can find the links via the usual places but i'd prefer to have free legal software rather than cracked ones.

Thanks in advance.

[CominAtcha]

http://www.comodo.com/products/free_products.html

For gratis, you can't go wrong.

[headsortails]

I'd stick a different AV program on rather than Symantec, unless corp is a whole lot different to the rest. I 'custom' version od nod32 perhaps, or avg or avast.

[danthescan]

To save you grief later Partition C: and ghost a bakup to D:Then when they fek it up, Re Image to new again in 5 mins.Use D as bakup for mail, my docs etc so nothing much is lost.

[{{909}}]

http://www.comodo.com/products/free_products.html

For gratis, you can't go wrong.

do u actually use these then? im looking to do the same to a firends computer i have here, just formatted it after trying to remove about a billion spyware progs that had infested the machine.

[CominAtcha]

do u actually use these then? im looking to do the same to a firends computer i have here, just formatted it after trying to remove about a billion spyware progs that had infested the machine.

I use the firewall and it does the job very well.

Cannot vouch for the other apps, but if they're anything like the firewall.....

[Spike2k1]

http://www.comodo.com/products/free_products.html

For gratis, you can't go wrong.

thanks for the link mate, just looked at the info on the antivirus and it didnt state how often its updates are...updated. i know norton and zonelabs are aparantly checked every 2 hours or something like that. so its always up to date. dunno what thier virus centre is like at comodo?

any suggestions on software to stop porn sites etc from young prying eyes?

will def do the image of the drive mate. will prob even keep a hard copy at mine incase it all goes tits up...