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Answer» I have read that having more than one anti-virus/mal/SPYWARE, etc. running at the same time isn't good. At this point, I have Windows Defender, AVG-free, Windows Firewall, and Registry Mechanic running. My e-mail provider also uses Barracuda. Do I need all of these? Which are best choices? Thanks!Lets start by getting rid of some stuff, windows defender isnt that good from what I hear. Not sure what antivirus you have but I would get Avast its a good strong free anti-virus. Not sure what antivirus you have....He has: Quote from: tnkgrammy on September 07, 2009, 05:19:53 AM AVG-freeQuote from: tnkgrammy on September 07, 2009, 05:19:53 AM I have read that having more than one anti-virus/mal/spyware, etc. running at the same time isn't good. At this point, I have Windows Defender, AVG-free, Windows Firewall, and Registry Mechanic running. My e-mail provider also uses Barracuda. Do I need all of these? Which are best choices? Thanks!I see no major problem with sticking with what you have. But, I would probably drop Registry Mechanic and use CCleaner for registry cleaning. CCleaner is very safe; more aggressive registry cleaners, like Registry Mechanic, can sometimes be too aggressive in removing registry entries and then cause problems. I'll second sqaull_01's suggestion of getting Malwarebytes. what makes you think that its a GUY? The only thing I seen was windows defender that some dont like here. Avast is slightly better but AVG is user friendlySquall, I think you should stick to criticizing other people's ideas instead of coming up with them on your own. Quote I have read that having more than one anti-virus/mal/spyware, etc. running at the same time isn't good.You are indeed right there. Having multiple antimalware software running in the background may bring up false positives, miss threats, or just hog all computer resources. what?? He said Quote from: soybean on September 07, 2009, 08:59:50 AM He has: The username is techgrany Quote from: squall_01 on September 07, 2009, 02:03:11 PM what?? He said No...it isn't. Quote from: tnkgrammy on September 07, 2009, 05:19:53 AM I have read that having more than one anti-virus/mal/spyware, etc. running at the same time isn't good. At this point, I have Windows Defender, AVG-free, Windows Firewall, and Registry Mechanic running. My e-mail provider also uses Barracuda. Do I need all of these? Which are best choices? Thanks!Okay, you're getting a lot of input here and some of it is even relevant to your question, but not all of it is good. So let's start at the beginning. 1) As Carbon Dudeoxide said, just one av is all you want. 2) You should not use ANY registry cleaners, including Registry Mechanic or ccleaner 3) I'm not a fan of Windows Defender for a number of reasons (I used it for more than a year on a number of systems and was never crazy about it). Instead I'd recommend weekly scans with Malware Bytes or Super AntiSpyware. Also download and install Spyware Blaster and update it weekly. 4) I don't care what Anti Virus utility you use (as long as it's not McAfee), but you must make sure it is ALWAYS resident and is set to automatically download the latest definitions at least daily. 5) Windows Firewall is fine. And if you use a router that's even better (combined with Windows Firewall). 6) Most important of all - practice smart computing. Know what sites you visit, never open emails unless you know the sender, never open email attachments unless you know for sure what they are, never provide anyone with your PASSWORDS or system username, etc. Quote from: patio on September 07, 2009, 02:09:58 PM No...it isn't. I must of missed that, I'm used too seeing that username. It still says grannyNice job ADG... squall: Quote tnkgrammy It's at the top of the page... Quote It still says grannyNo...it doesn't.I've never heard of a single problem with ccleaner, have you had any ADG? Windows (XP) firewall didn't block outgoing traffic, I'm not sure if that's still the case but if it is I wouldn't recommend it for that reason.I've never heard of a single problem with ccleaner, have you had any ADG? Not in the way you mean, no. But it does offer the option to delete FONTS, applications, help files, cookies, index.dat, etc. Inexperienced users may not want cookies or the index.dat deleted and may, accidentally, delete things they didn't mean to. IMO there is no reason to use ccleaner. It's easy enough to delete temp files, etc manually. Windows (XP) firewall didn't block outgoing traffic, I'm not sure if that's still the case but if it is I wouldn't recommend it for that reason. I do recommend it. Personally, I don't care that it doesn't block outgoing traffic (what is it I should be concerned with here?) and it does a fine job at blocking incoming threats. AND it's free, it's built in to the OS, and it's easy to use. And as I said, when combined with a router it's almost perfect Quote from: Fed on September 07, 2009, 02:53:11 PM I've never heard of a single problem with ccleaner, have you had any ADG? Not sure where your getting that there is I run Avast!, TeaTimer (Part of Spybot S&D), Windows Firewall/Defender and I have an inbuilt firewall on my router. Thats all I use and need. |
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