PC security.

Aggieboy

I've got Microsoft security essentials, Avast and SUPERAntiSpyware on my PC. Any point, or do they counteract each other and slow the PC down? Which to keep? Thanks.

jndb72

I only use AVG on my laptop and have never had a problem.

Run Spyware Doctor and Spybot - Search and Destroy from time to time but they never find anything.

Thereagain, I don't visit many "dodgy" sites.

Cheers

supersonic

I don't run any virus protection, slowed my comp down too much!

But do run a firewall and anti spyware.

cooldad

Linux

YeehaaMcgee

Aggieboy wrote:

I've got Microsoft security essentials, Avast and SUPERAntiSpyware on my PC. Any point, or do they counteract each other and slow the PC down? Which to keep? Thanks.

For the love of all that is holy, that sounds like a nightmare.
MSE is enough, windows these days is secure enough to make actual drive-by attacks a vanishing rarity. Most modern malware infections are spread by tricking the user into installing something - which no anti-malware can protect against.

Aggieboy

Thanks all for replies. Yeehaa - so uninstall all but MSE? Download anything else as well or not?

Cheers.

YeehaaMcgee

Yes, only run one antimalware thing. They all have a slight impact on system performance, so stacking them up is a bad idea.
My preferred one is MSE - it's the least bothersome of the lot, in my opinion. However we use NOD32 on the network at work, and that's nicely unobtrusive too, although we have to.pay for it.

Aggieboy

Thanks a lot. I'll stick with that then.