AVG 9, Spywarebalster and Spybot - Do I need both?

[Bill]

Hi All,

I run an elderly Athlon based W2K PC, that is still up to what I need from
it. I use FireFox 3.3.5 as a browser, Sygate for my firewall and AVG 9. I
also run Spybot with teatimer.exe and have just ditched AdAware (I just
wasn't getting on with it) for SpywareBlaster. I understand that Spybot
(teatimer.exe) and SpywareBlaster both have dynamic protection, however I
have never been sure whether the spyware element of AVG is proactive.

Can anyone advise on my choices please and also whether running
SpywareBlaster and SpyBot is necessary. I know that you can never be too
safe, but I do have to keep an eye on resources.

Any advice appreciated.

Bill.

[Bill]

Sorry - didn't notice the error in the subject until I had posted!!

[Wile E. Coyote]

Best to use layered approach but my choice now is Avira, Malwarebytes,
Spywareblaster and Defender that is in Vista and Win7 already. Forget
Teatimer and just let Defender give you realtime protection. For Firefox
install the add-ons Adblock+ (enable subscription in options) and
noscript (allows you to whitelist sites or parts of sites that can run
scripts and block all others which makes browsing to sites you may not
know is safe or not a lot safer from malicious scripts).

Spybot is a scanner and provides pre-emptive blocking, Spywarebalaster
just provides pre-emtpive blocking and nothing else. Malwarebytes free
version is just a scanner and a better scanner than Spybot IMO. I choose
Avira over AVG because it is lighter on resources than the last time I
used AVG and it gets better detection rates than AVG but that comes at
the cost of more false positives too.

[Bill]

"Wile E. Coyote" <coy...@ACME.invalid> wrote in message
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Ok, thanks for the advice. Will give it a try.
Regards.
Bill.