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Security overload?

Hi,

have a wee Samsung R710, Vista Home Premium.

Have:

Ad-Aware, scheduled scan day 1,

Avast, live,

ccleaner, manual,

Comodo firewall, live,

Malware, manual,

Sptbot SD, scheduled scan day 2,

Spywareblaster, live,

SuperAnti Spyware, scheduled scan day 3,

Windows Defender, live.

Now, if I was to use Microsoft Security Essentials, what do I dump?

Thanks, for now.

Comments

  • dogmaryxx
    dogmaryxx Posts: 2,446 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Too much scheduled scanning for my liking.



    Ad-Aware, scheduled scan day 1, Dump. Useless.

    Avast, live, Dump

    ccleaner, manual,

    Comodo firewall, live,

    Malware, manual,

    Sptbot SD, scheduled scan day 2, Use manually

    Spywareblaster, live, Dump

    SuperAnti Spyware, scheduled scan day 3, Use manually

    Windows Defender, live. Included in MSE, no action required.
  • closed
    closed Posts: 10,886 Forumite
    edited 3 September 2010 at 8:32PM
    leave avast, ccleaner (set to run and close at boot, it has little to do with security apart from cleaning your cache), add malwarebytes, turn on windows firewall dump the rest, and forget about mse.

    All that security will grind your pc to a halt, all scanning for the same thing and hogging cpu and ram.
    !!
    > . !!!! ----> .
  • Fedz
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