Too many "guardians"?

While going thru the process of upgrading to NAV '03, you all told me to be sure to uninstall all the old, first. (Who knew?) Well I did all that, but discovered (remembered?) that I have A LOT of watchdogs, or "guardians" on my PC. Belarc Advisor; Ad-Aware; Spybot; Big Fix; No Ads; Reg Cleaner and now Norton System Works Professional '03 with Speed Disc; Optimization Wizard; Clean Sweep; Ghost and "Go-Back" ! (Whew) The PC works OK, and I only have Big Fix, Spybot, NAV & Live Update setup to load at Start-Up, but do I really need all this stuff?

 

You’ll get different opinions on this. IMO, Adaware, RegCleaner (never liked registry cleaners), BigFix and CleanSweep are unnecessary. Similar(ish) issues were discussed in this thread.

 

Hey Brett - Wonder if Cacheman is on that puppy?

 

Cacheman? Never heard of it, Rockster

 

Your Question;
but do I really need all this stuff?

Absolutely NOT. In my opinion, all that stuff is not needed in 98SE either

Every one of them does things a llitle different and if YOU are not careful it can create more problems.

Two or more programs trying to do the same job is a possible area for problems.

I would suggest that the first item too dump is Norton System Works.

I would go with something like AVG Anti-Virus and Kerio Firewall. They both do a good job WITHOUT loading up the system.

BillyBob

PS.

Edited to fit the original post. THis is in the 98 forum not XP.

BB