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Norton Anti Virus and AVG
Name: carpediemhk Date: October 14, 2002 at 18:09:58 Pacific OS: win 98 se CPU/Ram: P3 500mhz/128 mb
Comment:
Will running both Norton Anti Virus '02 and AVG Anti virus simultaneously in my system tray cause a conflict in my PC? I read somewhere that doing so might cause damage to the harddrive or elsewhere. So far, nothing out of the ordinary has happened. What's the straight dope on this matter?
Name: capt Date: October 14, 2002 at 18:24:17 Pacific
Reply:
There is a third party software program that will let you use two antivirus programs at the same time. Using two programs can cause a conflict if you should get a virus package. Each one will attempt to repair and clean it from different programing perspectives, which can result is a problem. Pick the one you like the best, since you have paid for Norton I would stick with it. Check out the Virus Bulletin website for the test results of al the major antivirus programs. Take care and all the best!
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Response Number 2
Name: Norm Date: October 14, 2002 at 18:39:59 Pacific
Name: Steve Date: October 14, 2002 at 21:13:13 Pacific
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I have run both NAV and AVG one right after the other and occasionally one finds something the other does not, and vice versa...
I tried running both of them at the same time, I didn't get any errors, but I was not confident that either one of them was doing the job...
Now, I do have a couple of customers that I am running NAV and SoloMicro...
I was having a hell of a time killing scrsvr.exe worms, and Capt suggested the Solo...it seemed to do the job ok because NAV was NOT getting it done...
So I left both NAV and Solo on 2 computers, and so far them seem to be doing fine, with no apparrent conflicts...
Steve
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Response Number 4
Name: EC Date: October 14, 2002 at 22:09:06 Pacific
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can you post the url for SoloMicro? Thanks
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Response Number 5
Name: Norm Date: October 15, 2002 at 02:28:29 Pacific
Name: carpediemhk Date: October 15, 2002 at 09:57:59 Pacific
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Thanks everyone for your input
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Response Number 7
Name: Danny Larouche Date: October 15, 2002 at 10:10:16 Pacific
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I am running both of them in my win2000 and never got any trouble.
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Response Number 8
Name: BubbaOtis Date: October 15, 2002 at 16:10:46 Pacific
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If you have to run two at a time don't you think it's time to shop for a new antivirus? :)
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Response Number 9
Name: EC Date: October 15, 2002 at 17:56:50 Pacific
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Thanks, Norm.
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Response Number 10
Name: carpediemhk Date: October 17, 2002 at 08:34:40 Pacific
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If one AV detects a virus but not the other, how do you know which one to trust? Is it a false alarm or the other AV failed to do its job?
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Response Number 11
Name: Think about this Date: October 20, 2002 at 23:05:31 Pacific
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If I had 2 Antivirus programs on 1 machine and one was finding all the viruses and the other was not I would have to ditch the one that's wasting hardrive space. I know that hd space is cheap but I would rather have more of pics of boobs than the extra Antivirus program.That is if im putting needless things on my drives.
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