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are these PC protection shareware superfluous?
my shutdown takes an awful long time, and I'm also curious if I can speed up the start-up, and one thing I'm curious about is how wasteful/pointless my free protection software is.
I have Avast!, ThreatFire, SUPERAntiSpyware, and Malwarebytes all running on start-up. I assume Windows Firewall also does whatever it does. (I used to have ZoneAlarm before switching to Win7, and I figured that would be superfluous now).
do I not need to have any of this running in the background? (I thiiink one or two of these offer no active protection but only scanning)
is there any list of what free software is worth getting to supplement the operating system you use and what is redundant in light of the protections already offered?
I've never had virus issues, so I don't know much about this software, including how much of it is just useless lag on my system. any insight would be appreciated.