I have the latest Norton anti virus with firewall, spyware protection, and
everything else. My question is, should I and how do I turn off all of the
Vista security. I know how to disable the firewall(I don't need 2 running),
It's not a question of not *needing* two running. You *shouldn't* have
two running, for two reasons:
1. You incur the extra overhead of running two firewalls,
2. You run the risk of conflicts between them.
but what about the rest of the stuff like defender etc?
There really is no etc. Defender is the only other security program. I
recommend that you do *not* turn it off. A single anti-spyware
product--even the best one--is *not* good enough. Note what Eric
Howes, who has done extensive testing on Anti-Spyware products,
states:
"No single anti-spyware scanner removes everything. Even the
best-performing anti-spyware scanner in these tests missed fully one
quarter of the "critical" files and Registry entries" See
http://spywarewarrior.com/asw-test-guide.htm
By the way, in my view, Norton is the poorest security software on the
market, and there are lots of better choices, many of them free.
