I do like McAffee, but all of that new fangled gloriness is too expensive for my tastes...
I've always loved symantec over the years, and still use their virus scanner utility (formerly norton) but that will stop soon since they're getting ready to only support windows vista and i refuse to use it).
I feel that one does need to have a virus scanner, but some of these free programs lack what i need, and the pay to use ones are too expensive :cough:...
I try to check my system for spyware/trojans every so often (spybot and adaware) but for the most part, those are the only utilities i use (short of norton corporate virus scanner)