What is the best, free protection?

what is the best, free antispyware program, antivirus program, firewall, anti-malware program and whatever you can get from the net?

Oh yeah can you put more than one antispyware on your computer?

I currently have mcafee security center which is supposed to be antivrus,spy,mal,ad, firewall protection but i dont really like it that much.

What is the best, free protection?nortonantivirus

Best? BitDefender

Free? AVG

What is the best, free protection?spyware

AntiVir Personal catches everything - I've never had a virus.

Use SpyBot and Adaware along with Spyware Blaster too.
I have used AVG Anti Virus, Zone Alarm Firewall, Spy-bot Search and Destroy and Ad Aware both spyware killers for years. They are all free for personal use and I have had no trouble with Viruses Trojans etc. AVG does not slow the system down as much as some other products and Zone Alarm allows a lot of personal configuration unlike the Windows Firewall. They can all be downloaded from the following linkhttp://www.computeractive.co.uk/. On the home page select downloads and then the appropriate category.I also use Windows Defender from the Microsoft site. It is safe to use two anti-spy products but never use more than one A/V as it can cause conflicts. You should run A/V and anti spy weekly. Hope this helps
The best free anitvirus is AVG all the way. I use it at work. The best free anit-spyware is Spybot Search and Destroy. Yes you can put more than one antispyware but I wouldn't do it. It's one or the other.
best free, firewall, rated, is comodo link http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/#

avg free is a good free antivirus http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/

you can use more than 1 antispyware, again avg do a decent free version http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-fre... these will not hog your resources, and they do offer good protection