Way to much virus protection?

Hi all, is there such a thing as WAY to much virus protection for ones computer, I have a friend who has downloaded just about everything there is out there, now does this make my P.C slower as it has to go throught all these protectors, since he has done this I,m finding my P.C is acting very slow, will someone inform me on this, is too much, to much. Thanks.

Way to much virus protection?internet security

In addition to the first statement all that protection will definitely make your computer slower, maybe even crash it, they all load up when you turn your computer on. Not only will more than 1 anti virus conflict with one another but the anti virus software by it self uses a lot of resources. Go to cnet or download.com and read the reviews and decide exactly what you want to keep and delete the rest! Peace!

Way to much virus protection?network security

Yes. In fact, more than one antivirus program is too much. Find a good one and use only it. It's okay to add a firewall, pop-up blocker, and spyware scanner (ad-aware, Spybot), but only 1 antivirus.
yes! the perfect combination is one antispyware and one antivirus program. and maybe one firewall if it doesn't conflict with two former programs. the thing is that security programs often conflicts with each other, so if you decide to keep for example two antiviruses, don't run both at the same time. another problem which causes slow computer performing is that if you run like five security programs and each of them monitors your machine, they take over computer memory, so you are unable to do anything else with it.