Norton Anti-Virus

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Penny

Is Microsoft AntiSpyWare compatable with Norton
AntiVirus? Can I install it without turning off Norton?
Can they work togeather?
 
The general answer is yes. There are a variety of versions of Norton
Antivirus, but I've done this install on both NAV2004 and NAV2005 machines
without issues.
 
The way I look at is that they do different things so if you run them one
after another you should have no problem. If you want to run them at the
same time you might get a conflict since both programs search and may
interfere with each other.

Try it to see. Carefully.
 
Yesterday, on a laptop, I did a Microsoft Antispyware scan. During the
scan, as files were being "touched" the antivirus app flagged about half a
dozen files as infected. These were all HTML files from Dell--manuals or
patches for the laptop. I foolishly did a subsequent scan with the
antivirus, and it deleted the files. I'm certain that these were false
positives, but it's an illustration of the interaction between the products.
The antivirus didn't notice these files until they were touched by the
antispyware app. It would have found them on a full system scan, which was
what I did. Had they been actual viruses--perhaps brand new ones that got
onto my system ahead of the definitions, there would have been some risk.
As it is, I'll need to go get those files again, probably. And complain to
the vendor.

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I've been using both since the AntiSpyware was released -
with no problemsm until now.
The Norton programme is constantly scanning whereas the
Microsoft performs a scan at 2am every day and that's
worked well. Following an article in PC PRo magazine,
I've begun to switch off my pc as an energy saving
exercise so now have to remember to scan at some time
during the day. This morning MAS scanned ok and then the
programme 'froze'.
It may have been a one-off - I'll let you know but it
would be good to know if anyone else has experienced any
similar problems
 
People say its work on Norton Antivirus but i'm not going
to believe it until i hear from MSAS team if it's
completely compatible with Symantec Product, like NAV. I
expect them to post it on there website when it's final
 
This is what the Known Issues section of Help for the current Beta version
has to say:
 
I have had Spybot S&D, NAV 2005, and MSAS all installed on 5 systems since
MSAS became available. All are in full/auto protect mode. I have had no
problems with any of the systems. In fact I recently upgraded to Spybot S&D
1.4, again with no problems.

It is interesting to watch the different alerts that are generated by Spybot
and MSAS.

I have had an unrelated problem updating NAV 2004 to NAV 2005 on a system.
NAV Tech Support has been unable to help, so I may get a chance to test a
different AV vendor's product with MSAS.

Bill
 
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