Currently I'm leaning slightly in favor of keeping McAfee, as I get it for free from my isp, I do like the firewall protection. As far as freeware goes, hey, freeware rules! I use ccleaner, heliospaint, adobe reader x, speedfan, batteryinfo, cdburnerxp, eset online scanner,
Soluto, GIMP 2, Secunia PSI, Auslogics disc defrag and registry cleaner, darkwave studio, dupdeterctor, dvd smith, audiograbber, media monkey, quicktime player, Speccy, the sage, unlocker, winamp, wise registry cleaner and wise disk cleaner. all freeware, all work fine with windows 7. I, too, use filehippo, and tucows.