Is my laptop over protected?

wazza

Could someone cast an eye on the below programs installed on my Dell laptop running Vista and check if i have not over protected the laptop.

Avira Antivirus

Malwarebyte Anti Malware

Ad-Aware

Spybot Search and destroy

Spywareblaster

SpywareGuard

Zonealarm Firewall

and of course CCleaner

Thanks

bat999

Avira
MalwareBytes
ZoneAlarm
Ccleaner

The above are probably sufficient.

didi66

bat999 wrote: »

Avira
MalwareBytes
ZoneAlarm
Ccleaner

The above are probably sufficient.

Yep I agree. Having too many things at one time can cause conflicts and slow your laptop down.

DCFC79

bat999 wrote: »

Avira
MalwareBytes
ZoneAlarm
Ccleaner

The above are probably sufficient.

second the above set up, no need to have programs that do the same role, for firewall get soemthing like pc tools which im currently using

closed

yes, ZA doesn't help speed either.

cybergibbons

What's wrong with Windows Firewall?

aliEnRIK

Id say under protected. Zonealarm is very poor these days

bat999

closed:- yes, ZA doesn't help speed either.

cybergibbons:- What's wrong with Windows Firewall?

aliEnRIK:- Id say under protected. Zonealarm is very poor these days

So would you guys recommend that the OP uses Windows Firewall instead of ZA?:cool:

spud17

bat999 wrote: »

So would you guys recommend that the OP uses Windows Firewall instead of ZA?:cool:

If behind a router, and using Vista or Win 7, then definitely,Yes.

closed

Yes, personal outbound firewalls are bloat and most people have no idea whether to allow or deny an outbound process so select allow, router (backed up with windows firewall) stops people getting in, resident virus scanner (backed up with secondary manual scanner eg malwarebytes) stops 99%+ of infections.

avast5, malwarebytes, and windows firewall (+ ccleaner which has little to do with security) will run much better than the long list in the op's post, with little or no difference in protection.

notjustanyone

I use
Avira
Malwarebytes
SUPERAntiSpyware
Spybot
CCleaner
Use Vista's firewall, behind my router
also have Windows Defender

Never had any problems so far since I got this laptop 17 months ago using the above softwares