using avast! alone,or with its brothers

[Tarq57]

In my signature.
I try to cover each layer with an appropriate tool, and also make regular backups to an external drive.
Avast is the mainstay tool, but it's part of a bunch.
No slowdown worth worrying about, either.

[polonus]

Hi folks,

The overkill, well I can live with it, processes that are somewhat consuming are agent.exe 11.792 kB, vsmon.exe 21.528 kB and ashServ.exe 17.452 kB, well what does not consumes much is SAS 740 kB, iptray 532 kB, ashMaiSv.exe 288 kB, Mem usage with streaming radio on 72% CPU usage 19%, no conflicts. The only thing to complain about is when ThreatFire is updating that is consuming a lot of resources, a real resource-hog updater, to the contrary ImmunetProtect, an in the cloud av and ThreatFire addition, is very light on resources, PSI is only active at changes of third party software,
but I might test out other configurations to cover the same security window,

polonus

[Gandalf1369]

I have avast! 5.0 Free, Spyware Blaster, SpyBot Search and Destroy (no TeaTimer running) (manual scan), SuperAntiSpyware Free Edition (manual scan), Windows Defender.

Have had no problems at all running avast and Windows Defender - the others are only run on demand.