I wanted to start a thread for anything that might be recommended to help with safety of a computer. Currently I have Firefox with No-Script, MBAM and do two scans per day as a normal check. Would anything else be recommended for just General Safety? Such as programs that are useful for keeping out infections and general precautions.
Fox
Two scans a day is a bit much if your careful on where you go on the net.A quick scan a day and a complete scan once ain a while is more than enough.everything else you seem to be doing right.Don’t forget update update and update.You don’t want to over clutter your pc.Neat and to the point.
PS. you didn’t mention if you have a firewall?
If I did 2 scans a day, I wouldn’t get any work done. 
avast! checks anything new and changed and watches your browsing on the net.
Why so much scanning ???
I make sure my system is clean whenever a new Major release of avast! is released.
(Last one was done when version 8 was released.)
It’s nice to be safe but not much fun to be paranoid. ;D
I’m currently running the Trial Version of Avast! Internet Security to see If I like how it handles. So currently I do have a firewall. However yes two scans a day is a bit much but more than worth it considering my unlucky past with computers. I used to use Norton but I was annoyed with the extreme CPU usage and it apparently not having a good offline scanner so I’m looking at Avast! something highly recommended by my techie friends.
Fox
You will really like Avast. Nice and light, everything you need in a AV. Been using it years never had a problem that couldn’t be fix with this forum.
By the way how did you uninstall Northon.?
Used the uninstaller from their webpage.
For what it’s worth, I run a quick scan once a week scheduled when I know my laptop will be on.
If, for some reason, it isn’t on I will get the next time. Since avast comes loaded with all of those wonderful
resident shields the need for daily/frequent scans is greatly diminished. I do a full scan once a month. 8)
If you take note of many user’s “security and OS signatures” below their posts, you will get a good idea of what people are using for ‘computer safety’.
You can Google for information on any software used but really the best “computer safety” is intelligent/diligent internet surfing! As mentioned: Update, Update, Update 
I just made this thread so people can share their programs or extras they love to use.
See my sig.
So where’s your Sig??
Hi, IMO surfing the web in a sandbox can help.Avast pro and internet security have this option and of course there is Sandboxie.
Well so far Firefox has been kinda buggy and slower than Chrome and somewhat incompatible with youtube so I had an idea. Run Chrome for normal everyday processes and run Firefox if I feel I’m walking into an unsafe website using No Script to keep anything from activating.
Also I had a question if you disable something with Avast! (like an extension or a plugin) what happens if you uninstall Avast! and forget to re-enable said extensions? I’ve noticed when you disable an extension it gets taken off Chromes extension list.
Also I’ve read about the light that shows CPU usage isn’t meant to blink a lot so how much is a lot?
Fox.
Sorry, but you’re not making much sense ???
Modified the question because it was a jumbled up mess.