Sorry, but in this day and age I want as much protection as possible.
Avast doesn’t protect against hackers that attempt to hijack your computer. Looking at the overview in Zonealarm I see that 61,020 intrusions have been blocked since install, 41 of those are high-rated"
IMHO it is only by having more than one defense against all the various threats that are out there (pop-ups, redirects, virus, trojans and whatever NEW scheme that is thought up) that you can have a computer that is somewhat under your control.
Imagine if you will if we were to allow only one software program to take care of the threats out there? How long would it take the “family” of hackers to break through? Say it were Avast. Do you really think that the hackers would just say “oh well, it’s too good, we might as well stop trying?”
I think not!
Avast worked very well for me up to the time that I detailed in my first post. These programs MUST interact and work well with programs that others will be used in conjunction.
Have you read the reports regarding the LATEST threat to Windows? Since SP2, how many critical updates have been released? Too many to count?
I started with computers before windows even existed. I find myself at this date scrambling to find technology to at least KEEP UP with the hacking community. Until the update of this morning, I had been able to keep my computer RELATIVELY free of threats. HOWEVER, this morning I also found that my beta Microsoft antispyware had found a “NS Keylogger Personel Monitor” file on my computer. Now, as per usual, a tip-off in this file name is right in front of you. The word Personal was misspelled (common among hackers at this date) Did Avast not recognize it because of the misspell? ZoneAlarm didn’t catch it, Avast didn’t catch it, but the Microsoft program did.
Should I have said “Oh I have Avast now, I can get rid of Zonealarm and Microsoft Antispyware etc?” I didn’t, and again, IMHO I wouldn’t trust my computer to any one program.