Best Browser, Anti-Virus and Email Client?

[Stewart]

Best free Anti-Virus, best Browser, best Email client (News Groups not needed)

Thought I'd try something different from IE and Outlook Express.

So, reccomendations please.

[BUFF]

AVG

Opera
Opera's email client M2 is very different in concept & I've never taken the time to really get to know it but I know people who love it.

Alternatively, Mozilla & it's email client.

PS. I'm assuming that you wanted the free bit to cover the browser & email client too

[Trash Man]

Firebird, Opera or MyIE2 are all great browsers. I am using Opera at the moment and getting on very well with it, very easy to use and set up.

Free Virus would be AVG.

Dunno about the mail cilents. Has Buff said, Opera as one built in.

[directhex]

Firebird for web, Thunderbird for mail, AVG or Avast for viruses

[Iain]

Browser - Firebird (new version out Monday 9th Feb)
Mail - Outlook (Thunderbird is good but it doesn't allow separate SMTP servers per account)
Anti-Virus - AVG

[atifds9]

best browser, Long live Firebird,Make sure u install using the windows installer of this site http://seb.mozdev.org/firebird, so that plugin install is easy for you, i.e java flash etc.

Have to be honest sill use outlook express beacuse i can access my webbased hotmail and lycos through it, much easier and faster to use then the actuall websites.

[TeePee]

I use crazybrowser, based on IE so familiar and yet adds a few features like tabbed browsing and popup blocking which I couldn't live without.

[directhex]

MyIE2 also does that

and like any IE-based browser, you can get a virus from a simple innocent-looking .JPG url

\o/

[Moby-Dick]

MyIE2 also does that

and like any IE-based browser, you can get a virus from a simple innocent-looking .JPG url

\o/

wasn't aware of that - got linkage?

been using myIE2 for a while and am pretty happy with it.

I just get annoyed when more than a significant ammount of sites go a bit pearshaped in opera :/

[directhex]

http://es.trendmicro-europe.com/ente...SYME.B&VSect=T

comes around on IRC about once a month

[DeludedGuy]

IE6 is great, its so simple, I couldnt see myself using anything else.

and for email try IncrediMail, its pretty good, and easy to use.

AVG for anti virus.

[Spud1]

i use IE6.029 (ie with winSP2) - it now comes with a popup blocker making it even better. theres no need for any other browser - tho MyIE2 is nice

Outlook2003 for email - tho i have used Lcars mail in the past

free antivirus - AVG tho i dont use it, prefer panda

[directhex]

/me repeats his link to a "click on a .jpg url with IE and get a virus huzzah" virus that affects IE

[Dr. X]

My preferences:

AVG free - cause I'm too lazy to reinstall norton 2003 every 6 months for free subscriptions...
Outlook2003 - did have 2000 on student edition, but got office2003 on ym uni's site licence
Mozilla or Opera. Wanting to try FireFox sometime too.