I forgot the name of the popup blocker i had, but it made a machine gun noise everytime it blocked a popup . For antivirus i would say AVG. AdAware for tracking cookies.
I use Windows Defender for Adware, as well as the Google Toolbar pop up blocker. For AVS, I don't use one that runs on my system. If I ever need a virus scan I go to
You can also use Adblock to get rid of popups. Although that's not it's main purpose you can easily get rid of flash and JavaScripts responcible for this.
I hate toolbars, you can change popup options in firefox and do stuff like make it so windows cant resize themselves too... Dont need google for that!
But for freeware, antivirus you got:
Lavasoft, Ad-Aware SE Personal AVG Free (Anti-Virus, Anti-spyware, and "rootkit" apparently, i just have AntiVirus)
Im also testing out this new one Spyware Doctor, it was recommended by google and it seems OK
And yeah, adblock is awesome! Once you learn a few tricks you can block a root advertisement site and ALL their advertisments will dissapear
Ghan has said he has fixed this. Monovertex please confirm this fix. This was only a problem with people that had signatures in the upper levels like not the special members but the respected members.