We all agree that one anti adware and spyware software is a must. However owing more than one is really not important for several reasons. The first and worse is the fact that it can be dangerous if you are not familiar with these type of software.



1. Owning more than one software of the same kind like two antispyware and adware software can actually cause certain type of backups deleted.

When you scan your computer with software A, this creates backups and sometimes important backups if any infection is found. Then when you scan with software B, it also create backups. However when you scan, software B will also find the backup files created by software A.

You then proceed to delete infections but you will be actually deleting the important backups made by software A.

The backups usually contain infected files also known as quarantined files. These should not be deleted cause they may be important for computer to work properly. They can only be deleted after a certain period of time or if user knows for sure they are not very important.

2. Having too many software running will slow down your computer. Actually other worse things can happen. For example a software might not work properly when another one is operating at the same time.

You may be familiar with those software that have real time protection. One of them may function bad if you use another one at same time.

The real problem with adware and spyware is not which software to use or not to use. Software serve only as a cure in case you get infected. Protection is better than cure.

Now protection is done by following certain guidelines and mainly avoid certain type of websites. That means you do not try to visit them or leave at once if you happen to do so.

These are illegal websites, most often those that give cheats or cracks which both mean same thing more or less. The porn sites and the badly designed sites. These are the sites that still use more than one popup. Serious companies do not make use of more than one popup and they have professional websites not horrible sites with banners and useless stuff with no benefit to the visitor.

A general rule is to use popular services when surfing or searching the Internet. Go where the crowd is going. There are hundreds of sites like yahoo, google and msn. There are hundreds of free multi player games or music download sites. But use the ones most people use.

Get feedback from the new, popular and free service known as Yahoo Answers. You get recommendations that way from people who already visited the websites you are looking for. That is better than searching for them yourself. www.answers.yahoo.com I am showing you how common sense helps a lot even on the Internet.

Now that is the protection which automatically removes 90% of the risk. The anti spyware and adware software serve as the cure in case you accidentally get infected.

However certain type of anti spyware and adware software serve also as protection, not just a cure. That means they have real time protection. That means they work when you are online. You see the icon near the clock, right hand side of the screen.

These are the type of software you should have. Just one is enough so you do not create problems with your antivirus or other anti spyware and adware software.

Remember you need only one software of each type. There are three types. The anti adware and spyware, antivirus and firewall software.

The ones that have no real time protection can only remove your infections while others protect, stop and block the danger before it can infect your computer. The others have all the other features as well, they have that indispensable protection. This is a feature that most free software do not have and that is why they are free.

So keep in mind that protection is better than cure. You do not just rely on your anti spyware and adware software. You should also avoid the dangerous websites and make sure you have just one of the three types of Internet security software. The anti virus, firewall and anti adware and spyware software.