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),
but what about the rest of the stuff like defender etc?

Thanks,

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:22:00 -0700, jc <jc@xxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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