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Old 8th Jan 2010, 16:10
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mad_jock
 
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If you have Windows defender and windows firewall you don't really need Zonealarm. Your Avast is doing 95% of your protection and those other 2 will do the rest and you also have proberly a firewall on your DSL router as well.

The fact you are running in a none admin account is worth far more in security than any other feature on your machine.

Having to many devices scanning everything can slow your system down to a snails pace as well.

I will bow to the others though as this windows7 machine is the first decent windows OS I have played with since NT4. All I have got on it is avast and windows firewall and Defender.

I am running it in a normal user account though not the one which the installation though I should use. WHich I think is half the problem people follow the instructions and it leaves them in a admin account. If it rebooted like a linux OS forcing you into a normal user account it would save folk a heap of problems
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