I had some damage when we were beseiged with one brutal ice storm right before Xmas.

Without elaborating that incident that hit me: probably a severe short circuit on the really low power factor transformers hanging on poles near my home office, it took out a modem, totally sca-rued up my router settings and discombobulated several programs.
I had to file a case with Kaspersky on KIS version 7.0.0.125dd.

When I sent them their sysinfo.txt file for analysis: I got this reply:

Hello,
After reviewing your system information file I have found the following incompatible software to be installed on your system.

=> Spybot - Search & Destroy Reason: [ Spybot / Product name ] => SpywareBlaster v Reason: [ spyware / Product name ]
=> Windows Defender Reason: [ Defender / Company ] => Windows Defender Signatures Reason: [ Defender / Company ]
Please remove these programs completely from the PC, then reboot the PC to remove your current installation of Kaspersky via the Control Panel and Add Remove Programs. Please then install a fresh copy of Kaspersky from here www.kaspersky.com/productupdates.
Thank You,
Erin XXXXXXX
Kaspersky Lab Support Engineer
I can't state that I honestly agree with this assesment, because I have 2) other machines running with no problems whatsoever with all these.

On the other hand, I have come to trust Kaspersky as my Primary Line of Defense even though (my opinion only) it is very difficult to set-up correctly.

Thought I'd throw it out for discussion here, since most of my PC mentors reside here and I always like redundancy: in opinions and especially protective programs.

Opinions/facts/what you use..... if anyone is up to the challenge, please?

I am: -->

Steve_83