# To Ilya: PC vs. Mac debate/contest/benchmarks

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**Created:** [January 3, 2012, 1:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/to-ilya-pc-vs-mac-debate-contest-benchmarks/262129 "2012-01-03T01:36:11Z")\
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> [@Simple Poll.](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/simple-poll/47671/5):
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> Spybot is only run once in a blue moon for the hell of it. Really is no different or worse from Malware Bytes. I mainly use the Immunize feature of Spybot because I use IE for certain things and you can never trust IE. The immunizations edit the host file to prevent some things from f’in up the machine, etc.

Spybot is as effective against spyware as farting in your USB ports. I’d love to see it actually prevent something. :rofl

> [@Simple Poll.](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/simple-poll/47671/5):
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> I rely on CCleaner’s registry cleaner the most. It’s a nice quick tool to cleanup temp files, etc. Disk Cleanup is nowhere near as thorough as CCleaner.

The registry cleaner does work well for removing recursive entries and broken, leftover entries from old software. Other than that, I would use it on a clients computer and remove it after I was done.

> [@Simple Poll.](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/simple-poll/47671/5):
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> Why is it bad to defrag once a month? I’m not defragging my SSD, and my 2TB drive is constantly having data written/taken off from it so stuff gets fragmented pretty quick. On any given month, I get about 20% fragmentation. Couple gigs worth (all my media files).

If you were defragging your SSD, I would have blocked you permanently. There’s generally no point to defragging a modern HDD that often. The fragmentation is minimal and will rarely affect speed at all. Once a month is excessive as far as I’m concerned.

> [@Simple Poll.](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/simple-poll/47671/5):
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> I use ZoneAlarm for one off applications like blocking Adobe from talking to license servers, etc. Matter of personal preference.

You could block that in the hosts file easily. ZoneAlarm is a major piece of trash, I can’t think of one good reason that anyone would ever load it on a machine. More power to you, bro.

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