re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps
Wednesday, April 6, 2005 at 7:49 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by MLS
(2200 messages posted)
You should be safe if you update the programs frequently so that you are using the
latest malware definitions. You are, however, paying a price in that so many programs
running in the background eat up system resources.
I thought about freeware for a while, but eventually gravitated to Norton. Not because
I like to spend $$$, but because maintenance of updates to counter ever evolving
malware is largely done automatically without my need to intervene. After adding
Spy Sweeper about a year ago to my Norton AV/FW, I have not noted any problems with
regard to malware. I find I am now spending more time using my computer, and much,
much less time worrying about its vulnerability to a malware attack.
BTW, I cannot overemphasize the benefits of a good backup approach. If malware ever
gets by your security defenses, restoration of a backup image means that you are
only minutes away from getting things back in order. I use Ghost, but other good
apps abound. Additionally, I use an app called FolderClone that constantly saves
the contents of selected files/folders (including Outlook) to a second drive I use
just for backup purposes. Last week I messed up installing an app and my machine
developed a terminal case of "wont-work-itis". Ghost had me back in 10 minutes,
and FolderClone restored my data in just a couple of minutes. Recovery time? Less
than fifteeen minutes. Before adopting my approach? About two days of sheer hell!
One last thing, I do hide behind a router when surfing the net.
On Monday, April 4, 2005 at 12:08 pm, Chris wrote:
>Sorry I seem "annoying" sometimes. I got flustered because I was asking things
like
>what should I do because Mcafee and Antivirguard were not the same. No one told
>me execpt ottter that the guard and mcafee's guard (which I didn't know it had)
would
>compete I guess. A lot of you just said two AV's are bad which I knew but no one
>told me why nor listened when I said that they arn't the same thing.
>
>Also can someone simply tell me this:
>
>Am I safe while using SpywareBlaster, Spyware Gaurd, McAfee Security Center, CWShredder,
>Adaware SE, Spbot and Windows Firewall? (now that I typed that out I think I am
>lol, thats a lot, I'm moslty concerned about viruses though more than spyware.
That's
>why I got antivir. And when that app found some trojands I was worried that my
AV
>wasn't good enough. Thus sparking the idea I had that getting rid of antivri was
>baaad.)
|
All messages in this thread [show all]
 | |  |  | re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (MLS: Wed, Apr 6, 2005, 7:49 am) |
| |
| |
Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum
|
|
