Over-kill?

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I run Norton AntiVirus, Spyware Blaster, SpyBot, Ad-Aware, and Windows
Defender, every morning. Do you experts believe I may be causing stress to
my Windows XP by doing this and might these precautions border on
"over-kill"?.... TIA for your help.
...Vi
 
~Vi said:
I run Norton AntiVirus, Spyware Blaster, SpyBot, Ad-Aware, and Windows
Defender, every morning. Do you experts believe I may be causing
stress to my Windows XP by doing this and might these precautions
border on "over-kill"?.... TIA for your help.
..Vi

does your system come up clean after the scans?
I think it's overkill as long as you surf safely you should be fine.
I personally don't use an antivirus, or those removal tools on a regular
basis, (about three times a year)
and I have a clean system three years now.
Most of my customers have infected systems from downloading "free" whatever
and going to "adult" websites or file sharing with limewire and the such.

Clark...
 
In said:
I run Norton AntiVirus, Spyware Blaster, SpyBot, Ad-Aware, and Windows
Defender, every morning. Do you experts believe I may be causing
stress to my Windows XP by doing this and might these precautions
border on "over-kill"?.... TIA for your help. ..Vi

Every morning? By the time they are finished, is it afternoon?

Sounds like an overkill in paranoia to me. If you practice Safe Hex, and
use applications that are secure (more than the ones you are currently
using), you could stop doing all that.

http://k75s.home.att.net/tips.html
 
I run Norton AntiVirus, Spyware Blaster, SpyBot, Ad-Aware, and
Windows Defender, every morning. Do you experts believe I may be
causing stress to my Windows XP by doing this
No.

and might these precautions border on "over-kill"?....

It's kind of obsessive/compulsive, but it won't hurt anything.
 
In message <[email protected]>
at 11:15:32 on Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Nil
It's kind of obsessive/compulsive, but it won't hurt anything.
Well I use the latest version of SpyBot S&D and Adaware 2007 and will be
using Kapesky Internet Suite on my new PC. I also use a customised
hosts file from an mvps website - sorry don't have the URL here as this
is the old PC - but it's one which replaces a load of doubleclick type
URL's with 127.0.0.1. I notice AdAware scans the hosts file when I do a
deep scan, and was wondering if having the customised hosts file was
overkill also?
 
.. and was wondering if having the customised hosts file was overkill
also?

If you like advertising and malware distributing sites, remove the hosts
file.
 
~Vi said:
I run Norton AntiVirus, Spyware Blaster, SpyBot, Ad-Aware, and Windows
Defender, every morning. Do you experts believe I may be causing stress to
my Windows XP by doing this and might these precautions border on
"over-kill"?.... TIA for your help.
..Vi


OK, I just read the posts .... thanks.... I guess the bottom line is I need
to relax more and worry a little less. Thanks everyone that advised me...
(not the first time that's been suggested to me by the way,.. old habits die
hard I guess. <g>
..... Vi
 
In message <[email protected]>
at 20:22:51 on Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Beauregard T. Shagnasty
If you like advertising and malware distributing sites, remove the hosts
file.
OK I get the point. Just the Mrs does her competitions (sweepstakes to
American folks) and half of them using darn click throughs. Just
checking I wasn't duplicating any protection the other two programs
offered
 
~Vi said:
I run Norton AntiVirus, Spyware Blaster, SpyBot, Ad-Aware, and Windows
Defender, every morning. Do you experts believe I may be causing stress to
my Windows XP by doing this and might these precautions border on
"over-kill"?.... TIA for your help.

No-I would keep it up
I do spysweeper(webroot),a virus deal(esan for windows), a file
cleanup(easycleaner), registry cleaner(regcleaner) every day also-takes 10
minutes.. keeps computer running fast-spend few hours a day on the
net...,..my old computer went Kaput from too much spyware--I was shocked
Michael
 
~Vi said:
I run Norton AntiVirus, Spyware Blaster, SpyBot, Ad-Aware, and Windows
Defender, every morning. Do you experts believe I may be causing stress to
my Windows XP by doing this and might these precautions border on
"over-kill"?.... TIA for your help.
..Vi
I run Nod32 live. I run SpuBot and Ad-Aware once a week That seems to take
care of everything just fine.
Jim
 
In said:
my old computer went Kaput from too much spyware-

Use better tools and practice Safe Hex.

My computers are connected to the 'net round the clock and have never
had any spyware, viruses, trojans, or any of that stuff.
 
~Vi said:
I run Norton AntiVirus, Spyware Blaster, SpyBot, Ad-Aware, and
Windows Defender, every morning. Do you experts believe I may
be causing stress to my Windows XP by doing this and might
these precautions border on "over-kill"?....

You might wear out your hard drive faster by performing a complete
virus scan on every file, every day.

What have you done regarding removing ALL old versions of your Java
runtime engine and making sure you only have the most recent version?

What have you done to update your PDF viewer to insure it's also the
most recent version?

A hosts file was also mentioned in this thread - do you have one?

Do you have a NAT-router (a $40 hardware device) between your
broadband modem and your computer? Or does your modem have NAT
functionality?

Does your modem or router have Wifi? Is it secure - or disabled if
not used?

Have you disabled uPNP on your router (if you have one) ?

Do you trust your DNS server? That is, do you trust that is hasn't
been, or can't be, poisoned? (Does anyone know if DNS poisoning is
still an actively used tactic these days?)

Have you turned off or disabled all unnecessary services on your
NT-based computer? Have you disabled the RPC service?
 
~Vi said:
I run Norton AntiVirus, Spyware Blaster, SpyBot, Ad-Aware, and Windows
Defender, every morning. Do you experts believe I may be causing stress to
my Windows XP
No.

by doing this and might these precautions border on "over-kill"?.... TIA
for your help.

Hell yes. Unless running malware scanners was the actual reason you
purchased a computer.
 
Robert Moir said:
Hell yes. Unless running malware scanners was the actual reason you
purchased a computer.


OK, I get it.... and no, that was NOT the actual reason I purchased my
computer. I just thought that by doing all of the above, I would be
preventing possible problems. Thank you for your input...
..... Vi
 
~Vi said:
OK, I get it.... and no, that was NOT the actual reason I purchased my
computer. I just thought that by doing all of the above, I would be
preventing possible problems. Thank you for your input...
.... Vi

Using _good_ AV programs, and _good_ Malware programs that protect in
real-time is adequate. Most freebies (SpyBot, AdAware, etc.) are okay, but
there are others that are vastly superior.

Norton's AV is good, but it has become a resource hog over the past couple
years; I like either NOD32 or Kapersky better.
In Malware protection, for the money, it's hard to beat CounterSpy.
 
relic said:
Using _good_ AV programs, and _good_ Malware programs that protect in
real-time is adequate. Most freebies (SpyBot, AdAware, etc.) are okay, but
there are others that are vastly superior.

Norton's AV is good, but it has become a resource hog over the past couple
years; I like either NOD32 or Kapersky better.
In Malware protection, for the money, it's hard to beat CounterSpy.


OK Relic, thanks a lot. I'll look into your suggestions. They have always
been welcome.
...... Vi
 
~Vi said:
OK Relic, thanks a lot. I'll look into your suggestions. They have
always been welcome.
..... Vi
If you read my most recent post on November 17, , you can see I messed up
again.... What a nightmare have to reformat from scratch.... Windows XP is
more difficult that windows 98SE was. Now I have 9 disks that I have to
download whereas before, I had just two to deal with.
 
Cornelia Parsley said:
what a dreadful application!


no, you don't!


Unnecessary scanning of HDD

Right.... and all I got in return was a virus that got through and I spent
more than a day and a half this past week, reformatting from scratch.....
This is not fun.... Hopefully I've learned my lesson and have notified
everyone in my Outlook Express directory, that I will no longer be opening
any attachments so don't send me anything because I will just be hitting the
delete.... and I am no longer using the preview pane. I read that junk gets
through in the review pane even without me opening the email and even though
it can't be seen by me...There is no end to the ways I can get into
trouble... (obviously)
 
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