Is it possible to have too much protection for my computer?

8 thoughts on “Is it possible to have too much protection for my computer?”

1. michael d says:

   January 17, 2010 at 3:13 pm

   sometimes you may over protect and others you can under protect

2. pixel-mom says:

   January 17, 2010 at 3:13 pm

   No.I have avast,malwarebytes,winpatrol,advanced system care that has defrag built in and I’m just fine.

3. mayank says:

   January 17, 2010 at 3:13 pm

   By having so many Antivirus solutions, you are simply making OS life hard since too many low level drivers could give you performance issues.
   I would suggest you to simply go for a good antivirus solution with updated virus definitions.

   ~Cheers

4. 4REEE says:

   January 17, 2010 at 3:13 pm

   Too much!

   They fight each other and slow the computer down.

   Try:

   Microsoft’s Security Essentials and it’s free:

   http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

   It covers both Anti-Spyware and Anti-Virus.

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5. Robot Kitten says:

   January 17, 2010 at 3:13 pm

   Either delete Avast or Microsoft Security Essentials.

6. Jasper says:

   January 17, 2010 at 3:13 pm

   You have one too many anti virus programs, Both should not run in real time. ~

7. mr_crankypants says:

   January 17, 2010 at 3:13 pm

   I only use the virus checker (AVG) and I do a spybot scan about once a month.

8. kenneth says:

   January 17, 2010 at 3:13 pm

   I use my laptop with Windows XP for my job, Systems Administrator / Security Specialist. Because what information I have on my system as well as what it is configured to access, I have installed quite an arsenal for monitoring / defense.

   Antivirus/Firewall – Symantec Client Security (not my choice)
   Ad-Aware with Ad Watch monitors for malicious processes
   Advanced SystemCare, not a monitoring software, but running it occasionally keeps things tuned
   Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, only setup to do manual scans
   Spybot Search & Destroy, utilizing the Teatimer which monitors for system configuration changes
   SpywareBlaster, this adds many addresses to your hosts file so to avoid the malicious addresses
   – as well as
   MBSA, run occasionally to assure settings are still secure
   Securina to assure I’m running up to date software
   and ProcessGuard so nothing can run without MY approval.

   None of this software has ever conflicted with each other and I’ve never had an infection, along with running full disk encryption.

   What you defend your system with is completely up to you and is a balance between loss of performance running all the added software and risk/threat. While most AV vendors recommend not to run more than one AV at once, if you do your homework, you may see some work fine together. AntiSpyware software is completely different, as each one I have seen provides a different strategy to defending/monitoring the system.

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