Two antivirus apps

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Is there a down side to running two anti-virus applications at the same
time?
Currently I run AVG 7.0, and I was pleased with it until recent problems.
Thanks
 
KerplunKuK said:
Is there a down side to running two anti-virus applications at the same
time?
Currently I run AVG 7.0, and I was pleased with it until recent problems.
Thanks
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From what I have seen and understand... if they are active at the same time,
it can cause problems.... I'm no expert.... I have one active all the time,
and one I access whenever I'm bored :):)

Have you tried looking at avast!... I have personally been pleased with
it.... always worth a look


Dale
 
Definitely not a good idea. The issue is that Anti-Virus programs have a
utlility running in realtime memory looking to scan files either being
written to or written from the hard drive. If two programs are running at
the same time, each programs utility would attempt to scan the file. Windows
NT technology in particular doesn't not like this type of action and can
either cause a pagefault or the dreaded "Blue Screen of Death".
 
KerplunKuK said:
Is there a down side to running two anti-virus applications at the same
time?
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It may cause problems, they'll have to use the same hooks in the OS, one
scanner might choke on the pattern files of another, etc... but
Currently I run AVG 7.0, and I was pleased with it until recent problems.
Thanks
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iirc I did have f-prot and avg running happily together at one time. I did
deinstall avg, since there is no point in having two of those running.
 
Frans Meijer said:
It may cause problems, they'll have to use the same hooks in the OS, one
scanner might choke on the pattern files of another, etc... but


iirc I did have f-prot and avg running happily together at one time. I did
deinstall avg, since there is no point in having two of those running.
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They do. At least on my system. I have AVG6, Free version,running all the
time, but, I also have F-Prot. I run the F-Prot as a back up. I have had
them set up this way for some time and have had no problems at all, as
F-Prot runs from DOS, and only when you run it. It's not a resource hog, and
it does not interfere with other programs. ;-)

Jan :)
 
From what I have seen and understand... if they are active at the same time,
it can cause problems.... I'm no expert.... I have one active all the time,
and one I access whenever I'm bored :):)

Have you tried looking at avast!... I have personally been pleased with
it.... always worth a look

Dale
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I agree with Dale's suggestion. I did not use to have an AV running
in real-time because of conflict with other AVs. I've used Avast in
real-time for a year without one problem. I leave it running while
updating EZTrust, AVG and F-prot for DOS. I leave it running while
performing selective or full scans with the other AV programs. There
are no conflicts using Win98SE. CPU usage = 0.6%. For XP, this may
not be true.

BoB
 
Is there a down side to running two anti-virus applications
at the same time?
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Only Windows 2003.NET supports this. Older Windows versions might crash.
May be supported in Windows XP SP2.
 
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