Anyone tried Kaspersky and AntiVir together?

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Has anyone tried running Kaspersky and AntiVir together?

I am interested to know if they can run properly if they are
installed on the same WinXP system.
 
Franklin said:
Has anyone tried running Kaspersky and AntiVir together?
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It's a bad idea to have 2 On-Access (resident) antivirus scanners
running simultaneously. When an on-access scanner detects a virus it
denies eccess to it. If you have 2 antivirus in memory and both of them
want to deny all other programs access to the infected file your system
will come to a grinding halt. Stick to one resident scanner and if you
choose use anogther scanner for on-demand scans.
I am interested to know if they can run properly if they are
installed on the same WinXP system.
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To answer your question no 2 antivirus products will work properly when
running simultaneously unless they were designed to do so.

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Franklin said:
Has anyone tried running Kaspersky and AntiVir together?
Click to expand...

It's a bad idea to have 2 On-Access (resident) antivirus scanners
running simultaneously. When an on-access scanner detects a virus it
denies eccess to it. If you have 2 antivirus in memory and both of them
want to deny all other programs access to the infected file your system
will come to a grinding halt. Stick to one resident scanner and if you
choose use anogther scanner for on-demand scans.
I am interested to know if they can run properly if they are
installed on the same WinXP system.
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To answer your question no 2 antivirus products will work properly when
running simultaneously unless they were designed to do so and in the
case of Kaspersky and Antivir this is not the case. If you want multiple
antivirus engines try f-secure who have for years used their own engine
amongst Kaspersky and F-Prot.(www.f-secure.com)

P.S. F-Prot engine has been ditched for F-Secure's own Libra engine
which specialises in script and macro viruses.

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It's a bad idea to have 2 On-Access (resident) antivirus
scanners running simultaneously. When an on-access scanner
detects a virus it denies eccess to it. If you have 2 antivirus
in memory and both of them want to deny all other programs
access to the infected file your system will come to a grinding
halt. Stick to one resident scanner and if you choose use
anogther scanner for on-demand scans.
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I could run one resident scanner and each of Kaspersky and AntiVir
could be run as on-demand scanners.

Does anyone know if there is a conflict when Kaspersky and AntiVir
are installed on the same machine?
To answer your question no 2 antivirus products will work
properly when running simultaneously unless they were designed
to do so.
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I think you are right if you say "No 2 antivirus products will
[always] work properly when running simultaneously".

My query is to know if Kaspersky and AntiVir can be installed to the
same machine and then run separately.
 
Franklin said:
My query is to know if Kaspersky and AntiVir can be installed to the
same machine and then run separately.
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Yes. But it would mean Resident scanning diabled for both products by
default or disabling one in order to enable another.

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