Check for updates to all my installed anti-apps everyday.
Only do a spyware scan maybe once or twice per month - nothing is ever found.
Do a virus scan once per day - nothing is ever found with the exception being the odd false positive. This may quickly go down to once or twice per month though.
I manually update all security programs (on demand) daily, and monitor the two that auto-update. With the exception of DrWeb's Cureit, which, due to the update size, (5.5Mb) update weekly just before a virus scan.
Run a full Avast boot scan weekly.
Run SAS, AVG AS, Asquared, SpywareTerminator (alternating) weekly; Spybot and AdAware every two weeks. Often less frequently, unless I have a suspicion about something.
If anything is found, which can't be identified, file is uploaded to Virustotal or jotti. (Very seldom is anything found. The occasional FP.)
CCleaner daily (or more) prior to shutdown.
Manually check for windows updates weekly. (Sometimes the security centre is a bit slow to advise of these.)
Run a HJT scan twice weekly.
Remove old restore points weekly.
Visit Wilders, CCleaner, Scott's Newsletter, and SpywareTerminator forums almost daily.
I manually update all my security applications daily. Run SAS, AVG-AS and a-squared (alternately) when I don't use the computer, run Ad-Aware (twice a week) and Spybot (once a week) when they are updated. Once a week a scan with Antivir, regularly a free online scan (Housecall, F-secure, Nanoscan/Activescan, Kaspersky)
i run spybot and on demand nod32 about once a week, nod32 is always running quietly in the backround. i run CCleaner about once every other day and also i always run CC after i get done uninstalling a lot of stuff. maybe once i month i run Auslogics disk defrag.
Well i manually check updates for SpywareBlaster about twice a week. I scan with Ad-Aware about twice or once a month and sometimes with Spybot S&D (never nothing found). Viruses i don't scan very often. I trust my Avast resident prodection. Sometimes i also quicly check with clrav virus removal utility. It's very fast scan for some specific viruses.
dr.web's cure it is a pretty neat little scanner. Its like sysclean, but you just download one small .exe every time you want to run it.(its only like 4mb)
dr.web's cure it is a pretty neat little scanner. Its like sysclean, but you just download one small .exe every time you want to run it.(its only like 4mb)
It also writes registry data, something which sysclean doesn't do.