Originally Posted by
Max
Gary, the key word here is "need" as opposed to prefer. I simply got very tired of the usual Anti-virus, spam, male-ware, Trojans, subscriptions, and everything else the industry has insisted we need in order to be "safe" from hackers and their ilk. All of this security nonsense can degrade a system's performance as you very well know.
So...My Chief machine has nothing. Literally. Just runs my apps and, never has a problem. It never needs updates either (turned off).
My Web machine handles the murky world of the bug and virus infested web! :D I don't care what happens and, interestingly enough nothing really ever has of any consequence. I did recently start using Microsoft's Anti virus software as it's free and really has no effect on performance.
Anyway, that's my preference.