How much anti-virus protection do I really need?

6 thoughts on “How much anti-virus protection do I really need?”

1. Mya G says:

   September 29, 2010 at 10:25 am

   Technically Spyware Blaster, Spybot and AdAware is Anti-Spyware and not Anti-Virus so you would need an Anti-Virus protection. Its always good to have more than one Anti-Spyware just because if one Anti-Spyware gets this much spyware then another program would catch others that one Anti-Spyware doesn’t. Most likely if you have AOL it comes with McAfee in my opinion its best not to have McAfee just b/c it does slow down your computer and causes issue from what I ran into. You can download a free Anti-Virus protection which is more effective and doesn’t take up much space and its called AVG.

2. tasty says:

   September 29, 2010 at 10:25 am

   http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

3. Gaming God says:

   September 29, 2010 at 10:25 am

   it sounds to me like you have everything covered. Virus protection isn’t as big of a deal as spyware in my opinion. If you are careful about e-mail attachments that you open, then you will probably find that most of your infections will be spyware.

   Be careful of putting too many of these programs on your machine though. If you get too many running at once, it can bog your system down as bad as if you had an infection.

   Spybot and Ad-Aware are great programs. I don’t know about Spyware Blaster though. The virus protection you are using through AOL should be sufficient in most cases, but you may want to look at Kapersky or Trend Micro for better anti-virus options.

4. polarcycle says:

   September 29, 2010 at 10:25 am

   I would look into getting the Firefox browser and adding some off their extensions like Addblock Plus and Noscript

5. Popsmear says:

   September 29, 2010 at 10:25 am

   If you are running an actual anti-virus like "McAfee® Virus Scan Plus-Special edition from AOL" then you are fine. Otherwise you have no anti-virus protection. Spyware Blaster, Spybot Search and Destroy and AdAware SE Personal all do not detect viruses but adware/spyware. That is more than enough.

6. gm_tyrant says:

   September 29, 2010 at 10:25 am

   It sounds like you have no antivirus protection. Everything listed there is for antispyware, which IS different.

   Check out AVGfree.

   If you use the internet, you need antivirus. There are just too many holes these days, even cautious, experienced users get infected.

   PS: Some people will tell you AOL is a virus in itself, and they wouldn’t be entirely wrong.

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