I've spent quite a bit of time over the past week troubleshooting a trojan with the aid of your incredible forum. I fixed my trojan problem, but during that time, I have downloaded several utilities to help me protect my computer. I now have so many, I'm not sure which I should have running at Startup/real-time. I'm reasonably sure there is some overlap that could cause conflict and inefficiency. Here's what I've got; I welcome your recommendations:
Windows Firewall
SyGate Personal Firewall
Norton Antivirus 2005
Microsoft AntiSpyware
SpywareBlaster
SpywareGuard 2.2
Ewido Anti-Malware Guard
TrojanHunter Guard
SpyBot S&D Resident SD Helper & Tea Timer
AdAware SE
A Squared
I'd also welcome any "get rid of that and get this instead" type of suggestions.
Thanks.
For what it is worth I will tell you what I have on my machine.
Windows Firewall <<< no, I have a router
SyGate Personal Firewall <<< yes I use a software firewall
Norton Antivirus 2005 << yes I ise an anti virus
Microsoft AntiSpyware <<< I have this and use it as an on demand scanner
SpywareBlaster <<< I haver this as it blocks many infections from happening
SpywareGuard 2.2 <<< I use this as it restricts 1000's of bad sites
Ewido Anti-Malware Guard <<< I use this as an on demand scanner
TrojanHunter Guard <<< do not use but it is a good tool
SpyBot S&D Resident SD Helper & Tea Timer <<< I use ason demand scanner
AdAware SE <<< I use as on demand scanner
A Squared <<< I use as on dmand scanner
AS you can see I use most of them. I use many of them as an on demand scanners as this use no resources but does use disk space. If I had limited space these are the ones I would keep but this is a personal choice.
Software firewall
Anti virus ( of course keep it up to date and active)
SpywareBlaster
SpywareGuard 2.2
Ewido Anti-Malware Guard
SpyBot S&D
AdAware SE
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