My Current Protection Setup (recommendations & Suggestions Happily Received)

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My Current Protection Setup (recommendations & Suggestions Happily Received)

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Maabsta View Member Profile	Jul 18 2007, 11:05 AM Post #1
Member Group: Members Posts: 38 Joined: 13-August 06 Member No.: 80,667	So I have been researching Protection Methods ever since I received my computer almost a year ago. I have tried random programs and this is what I currently use. My question(s) is this: Do I have too much protection? (IE overlaps in protection that isn't needed or stuff that will just slow my computer down) Do you have any suggestions of programs I do not have or programs to swap out? What I am looking for is a maximum level of security that will not slow down my machine. I have 3.0ghz processor speed, 2 gigs of ram, and a Geforce 7600 GT graphics card if any of this helps in your analysis. Thanks a lot BC for all your help ;) Frankie. Anti-Virus: AVG Free Edition Firewall: COMODO Firewall Pro (Just changed from ZoneAlarm) Anti-Spyware: Ad-Aware 2007 & Spybot - Search & Destroy Anti-Trojan: a-squared Free Real Time Anti-Spyware: SpywareBlaster & Spyware Guard Browser Add-Ons (Firefox): Adblock Plus, Mcafee SiteAdvisor, NoScript Random Tools: RootkitRevealer, LSPFix, HijackThis, cwshredder, autoruns, & AVG Anti-Rootkit Free

jgweed View Member Profile	Jul 18 2007, 11:47 AM Post #2
Forum Addict Group: Global Moderator Posts: 20,642 Joined: 11-April 04 From: Chicago, Il. Member No.: 113	As long as you follow computer security best practices, you seem to have a very sound and layered protection from an application standpoint. I might suggest adding AVG's AS application, but that is entirely up to you. Regards, John -------------------- Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one should be silent.

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