Well I thought (and still think) it was a fair question, DavidR. If the idea of ditching WP has narked anyone…well…what can I say? There ya go :-X

To be frank, it could be a mighty long (and slightly weird) process scouring posts looking for individual sigs with ‘WinPatrol’ in them or ‘WinPatrol Plus’ simply to determine who uses what software. And besides, just because someone uses WinPatrol and chooses to display this in their signature doesn’t necessarily provide me with the information I’m after…it just shows that they use the program and obviously like it. Lots of people duplicate function because they support a particular software they’ve liked and have used for years. I often read posts where a poster claims to use say 5 AV scanners together with 4 malware/spyware scanners and a royal host of other stuff and they are quite proud of their ‘fortress’ of tools to combat being ‘got at’. Not that running another AV is a sin, because I have ClamWin installed as well…but then that doesn’t really duplicate function, just provides a second opinion.

Even though I’m on the extra cautious side of careful, I nonetheless review what I use and try not to bog my system down with unnecessary offerings, regardless of how wonderful the software is, or how long I’ve used it for. Just because something offers to make me ‘feel safer’ doesn’t mean it actually does make me safer, and I consider this with any security software. But, if WP is still necessary - to back up Avast - then I’m still glad of it, and happy to continue using it…as I’ve been happy to do for years. But if it ever gets to the point where there’s too much ‘duplication’ then I’ll heartlessly trim down regardless of how much kudos the author may have, or how much I have invested in supporting it previously.

No offence intended btw.