What is the minimum number of security software before you feel safe?

I was running many popular antispyware/antimalware tools (Spybot, MBAM, SAS, A2) for months/years but they never found any threat on my laptop - only some false positives! Sometimes I think it's a waste of time to run all these scanners, so I voted 1: AVG 8.5 with LinkScanner and hardware router seems to be enough?!

 

I feel safe with just a router to be honest. Providing I can use an alternative browser, which isn't classed as a security app. Therefore I voted 0.

 

Same, except that I prefer software to hardware firewalls (easier to control), and I feel pretty safe with IE8, perhaps more so than any other browser.

 

Right now ZA free firewall, Avast free, LUA and common sense.

 

I voted 0 but then it hit me that this poll probably is for Windows users only.
In my vista (UAC and SRP enabled) the only external security software is Vista Firewall Control.

 

I have just 2 installed for now (sometimes use FirstDefense ISR or Shadow Defender for beta testing)

1. KIS 2010
2. FF with AdBlock+,No Script,Flash Block

That is quite enough for me

 

I said 2 :

Windows XP Firewall
Anti-Executable v2

The Rest is up to me !

 

TWo: Firewall and Opera

I consider Opera to be a security product because it neutralizes the web-based malware attacks.

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rich

 

Hardware Router with: NAT, SPI, PoD, DoS an etc..
Software Firewall listed below sign.. That's about it for protection.

 

You should probably add the option "Doesn't matter... what matters is how much the software I use delivers."

 

A hardware firewall and an up-to-date OS and a browser.

 

Router, Prevx, Key Scrambler and an up to date OS.

 

Any prime number with at least two digits.

Seriously, this is a strange poll.

 

Not a strange poll. Everyone here has their own favorite protection method.

 

But that was not the question, was it?

 

0 for me

2 if it counts Privoxy and ATI2009

 

I use 2 in realtime: Avira and OA.

 

Same here but I also use sandboxie .

 

0. All the software I use for security comes built-in in Windows XP Pro.

 

I chose 3-4. I do not include the WRT54G2 V1 Linksys with SPI firewall that I have. I have what I feel is the perfect custom suite that I call SPONS, although one is not really real time so does not count: SpywareBlaster, PGP Desktop, Online Armor, NOD32, and Sandboxie. SpywareBlaster is not real time.

I use multiple browsers. SeaMonkey is the default and has NoScript, AdBlock Plus and CS Lite, plus some built in defenses; Firefox, the same; K-Meleon has built in privacy and security; KM Lite has built in privacy, AdBlock Plus, and NoScript. Do I count these?

SPONS run on a harden system, XP Pro SP3 suffices, I dare say. These layers

router
Online Armor
Sandboxie
browsers and email (PGP)
NOD32
SpywareBlaster
hardened XP Pro SP3 and
my paranoid brain. So maybe I should have said eight layers, not just 3-4 programs.