Recommended Software to Load on a Windows PC

Web Browser - Firefox http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
AntiVirus - AVG Anti Virus Free Edition for Home users http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/
Spyware - Ad-Aware - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Spyware - Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
Instant Messenging (AOL, MSN, yahoo, etc) - Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/win32/index.php
Email - Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/