Running dual Anti-Virus Programs

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I notice when you install AntiVir it recommends uninstalling any other anti
virus programs you have as it is dangerous to your system to run them
together. I also noticed that many participants of this ng have stated that
they run several AV's concurrently. Has anyone experienced any difficulties
with this?
Regards
Dave
 
Big-pallooka said:
I notice when you install AntiVir it recommends uninstalling any other anti
virus programs you have as it is dangerous to your system to run them
together. I also noticed that many participants of this ng have stated that
they run several AV's concurrently. Has anyone experienced any difficulties
with this?
Regards
Dave
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The problems can arise if you have more than one AV running in the
background simultaneously. If you set one to run in its auto-protect mode
and use the other only for manual scans, you can avoid the potential
conflicts. For several years, I did this with Norton running full-time,
using McAfee only to manually scan downloaded files as a sort of "second
opinion" on whether a file was clean or not.

Regards,
Ian.
 
Big-pallooka said:
I notice when you install AntiVir it recommends uninstalling any other anti
virus programs you have as it is dangerous to your system to run them
together. I also noticed that many participants of this ng have stated that
they run several AV's concurrently. Has anyone experienced any difficulties
with this?
Regards
Dave
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If you run the Anti-vir guard program with the other program's resident
program, you probably will have trouble. If you are careful to install
without enabling the resident program or disable it immediately, you
shouldn't have a problem. I am running one computer with Anti-vir and McAfee
and another with AVG and McAfee and don't have a problem. However, I once
wasn't able to install Avast without first disabling the McAfee resident
program. May be different now.

Also McAfee 8.0 won't install unless you also uninstall your current
Antivirus program. Sufficient to say, that is the last time I buy McAfee.
However it doesn't object when you reinstall them.

Hope this helps.

Dick Kistler
 
I run both AVG and Trend Micro Office scan simultaneously without problems.
Different combinations on different systems may cause problems but you
won't know till you try.
 
Ionizer said:
The problems can arise if you have more than one AV running in the
background simultaneously. If you set one to run in its auto-protect mode
and use the other only for manual scans, you can avoid the potential
conflicts. For several years, I did this with Norton running full-time,
using McAfee only to manually scan downloaded files as a sort of "second
opinion" on whether a file was clean or not.
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I does the same with Avast as primary resident scanner
and AVG as a second on demand one.
 
I notice when you install AntiVir it recommends uninstalling any other anti
virus programs you have as it is dangerous to your system to run them
together. I also noticed that many participants of this ng have stated that
they run several AV's concurrently. Has anyone experienced any difficulties
with this?
Regards
Dave
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Yeah, I always used the freeware F-Prot for DOS (until now that I've got
WinXP, darn it!) as a backup scanner. I figured that, if one anti-virus app
triggered a dormant, unknown virus to flare up and attack it, the second
might catch it. Course, back then I had checksums in all my folders, too.
That doesn't seem to be an issue, though.

More likely, having multiple AV's just increases the odds that, if you get
a new virus, then at least one of 'em should be able to catch it.


Aaron

P.S.

Looking over all this stuff I wrote, I guess I'm kinda paranoid--especially
for somebody who never got an infection. Then again, maybe it's why none of
my close calls ever destroyed anything on my system...
 
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