I just clean installed Windows 7 yesterday..good thing I have a really good virus protection
Call me a renegade, but in my experience, Virus protection significantly hinders performance. I don’t use it. I disable UAC, as well. The only thing I have running is a firewall.
Somehow, I avoid infections... Including all the Spyware crap that I run scans for periodically. This stuff is more predominant, peskier and treacherous than viruses in my opinion, anyway.
My secret? Clean living, I guess.