First of all just for some background information, here are my system specs (woot, built it myself ):
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MotherBoard: ASUSTeK P4C800-E
3.20 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
1024 Megabytes Installed Memory
Mitsubishi DPro930SB [Monitor] 18''
Sapphire ATi X800XT Graphics Card
Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS (WDM)
NEC DVD_RW Drive
Western Digital 74.g 10,000 RPM Raptor
Seagate 160g 72,000 RPM
500w Logitech Z 650 5.1 Speakers
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As you can see I spent a buttload of money to build this computer, so I treat it like a baby as much as I can so I clean it often (once or twice a weak). I am a frequent viewer of these forums and what I have found is that not every cleaning software program is the best, and usually one is better at finding something than the other and vice versa. Thus I went to www.download.com and started to download the newest and or best rated and reccomended Anti-Spyware/Adware/Virus Programs. The ones I downloaded were:
Ad-Aware SE Personal
ewido Secuirity Suite
Spy-Bot Search and Destroy
Spyware Doctor
Spy Sweeper
Spy Cleaner Gold
&
AVG 7.0 Anti Virus Protector
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I run ^ these programs one at a time because if I do it all at once it takes FOREVER to finish. I had a person tell me that by cleaning out my hard drive with all these programs it is lessening the life of my Hard Drives and just burning them up. If I run each one one at a time one after the other so they go by quickly and effectively, is this bad for my hard drives, as you can tell all I want to do is what is best for it so I have the best programs check it out. So my question is: Are these programs killing my harddrives?
Also I know this isn't the proper place to ask this but are Firewalls really nesessary?
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MotherBoard: ASUSTeK P4C800-E
3.20 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
1024 Megabytes Installed Memory
Mitsubishi DPro930SB [Monitor] 18''
Sapphire ATi X800XT Graphics Card
Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS (WDM)
NEC DVD_RW Drive
Western Digital 74.g 10,000 RPM Raptor
Seagate 160g 72,000 RPM
500w Logitech Z 650 5.1 Speakers
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As you can see I spent a buttload of money to build this computer, so I treat it like a baby as much as I can so I clean it often (once or twice a weak). I am a frequent viewer of these forums and what I have found is that not every cleaning software program is the best, and usually one is better at finding something than the other and vice versa. Thus I went to www.download.com and started to download the newest and or best rated and reccomended Anti-Spyware/Adware/Virus Programs. The ones I downloaded were:
Ad-Aware SE Personal
ewido Secuirity Suite
Spy-Bot Search and Destroy
Spyware Doctor
Spy Sweeper
Spy Cleaner Gold
&
AVG 7.0 Anti Virus Protector
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I run ^ these programs one at a time because if I do it all at once it takes FOREVER to finish. I had a person tell me that by cleaning out my hard drive with all these programs it is lessening the life of my Hard Drives and just burning them up. If I run each one one at a time one after the other so they go by quickly and effectively, is this bad for my hard drives, as you can tell all I want to do is what is best for it so I have the best programs check it out. So my question is: Are these programs killing my harddrives?
Also I know this isn't the proper place to ask this but are Firewalls really nesessary?