In article <carlhammel1-B7BD35.17374723122007@news.verizon.net>,
carlhammel1@gmail.com says...

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> There are those that have mixed/matched two AV products by tweaking them.
> However, it is NOT a suggested method and such an act has not been
> proven to provide extra protection, only resource loss.
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> My question: Should I indeed be running only one of these applications
> and, if so, which one would folks recommend???
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Run one and only one AV. Running two in background leads to conflict.
Use any good firewall. Windows XP firewall works inbound only. In the
event of a trojan calling out you'd be blind to it.

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James E. Morrow
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