I am at renewal time on all my software, and I am currently running trend micro antivirus plus antispyware, PC tools spyware doctor, and Webroot spysweeper. They all come up all the time, but I wasn’t sure about what to renew, and would I be just as safe if I only had one? I have already renewed the Trend antivirus/spyware one….do I need the others?
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3 responses so far ↓
1 Patsy p // Aug 13, 2008
Keep the trend, trash the rest. Never purchase an antispyware program. theres too many out there that are WAY better and free!
2 Webman // Aug 13, 2008
The minimum recommended protection is:
Anti-Spyware
Anti-Virus
Firewall
Anti-Spam
E-Mail Scanning
You should only have one anti-virus and firewall program installed at a time. Having more than one of these can cause them to interfere, and even damage your PC.
However, you can have more than one anti-spyware program installed.
3 sgt_mjc // Aug 13, 2008
I use three tools for my PC plus a hardware firewall built into my router. Other than my router, all are free and I have never had a problem. I use AVG Free, ThreatFire, and Windows Defender. If you have a serious spy-ware problem, get Spy-bot. Again, this is free. Now of course without mentioning it, I also have just the Windows Firewall to supplement my SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection) hardware Firewall. you can continue to pay if you like, but some of the best that I have used and continue to use, are free.
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