Avira Sufficient?

I was running Avast Free as antivirus until I discovered that it was conflicting with CDBurnerXP. I installed Avira Free in its place, but on installation Avira insisted I turn off Windows Defender.

On the face of it, it would appear that I do not now have a firewall installed (other than the one in the router).

Will Avira alone suffice?

stillfreefilms said:

yes but might i suggest Microsoft sercurity essentials is lighter and wont conflict with programs and just use windows firewall+ add malwarebytes antimalware and a secondary or on demand scanner.

links:

MSE: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

MBAM: Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware: Malwarebytes

Both are free and this is all you will ever need to stay protected.

hope this helps,Andrew

I'm afraid Avira insisted I deactivate Security Essentials on the Windows 7 machine !

Cheemag said:

I was running Avast Free as antivirus until I discovered that it was conflicting with CDBurnerXP. I installed Avira Free in its place, but on installation Avira insisted I turn off Windows Defender.

On the face of it, it would appear that I do not now have a firewall installed (other than the one in the router).

Will Avira alone suffice?

Hi, Cheemag.

I hope I am not misunderstanding what you wrote but I got the impression you might be thinking that Windows Defender is the Windows Firewall. Windows Defender is an anti-spyware program.

If you haven't activated the Windows Firewall, I strongly advise you do that to accompany the firewall on the router.

richc46 said:

All that is needed is Micrososft Security Essentials, malwarebytes and the windows firewall. Any more will not give you significanly more protection, but may slow the computer, cause BSOD and other problems.

Looking into it. Presumably that applies to the Windows 7 desktop as well as Virtual XP?

whs said:

Cheemag said:

stillfreefilms said:

yes but might i suggest Microsoft sercurity essentials is lighter and wont conflict with programs and just use windows firewall+ add malwarebytes antimalware and a secondary or on demand scanner.

links:

MSE: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

MBAM: Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware: Malwarebytes

Both are free and this is all you will ever need to stay protected.

hope this helps,Andrew

I'm afraid Avira insisted I deactivate Security Essentials on the Windows 7 machine !

Of course. You cannot run Avira and MSE together. Only Avast and MSE work together.

OK Noted.