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Two Antivirus
Name: Vallequion Date: March 4, 2005 at 15:30:33 Pacific OS: Win XP CPU/Ram: P4 2.8, 1GB
Comment:
Is it safe to run two antivirus programs? I am using PC_CILLIN and AVG as some viruses aren't caught with one but are with the other?
It is probably safe but you will probably get false positive detections as one detects the other as a virus.
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Response Number 2
Name: dannyboy Date: March 4, 2005 at 15:43:12 Pacific
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I can't see it actually breaking anything, but it can't be a good use of resources. Don't expect to get any good 3dmark scores with 2 AV programs running :)
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Response Number 3
Name: Richard59 Date: March 4, 2005 at 15:49:31 Pacific
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Reminds me of the old joke. Why did the Irishman wear two condoms? To be Sure to be Sure.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and his wife will never forgive you.
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Response Number 4
Name: tommy o Date: March 4, 2005 at 16:39:00 Pacific
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He must have just come from the ballpark, it was a "double header"....
Goodnight all.. ~Tommyo
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Response Number 5
Name: RussellR Date: March 4, 2005 at 16:54:37 Pacific
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dont do it, it certainly can cause problems. those two in particular seem to cause lots of nice conflicts
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Response Number 6
Name: keatharo Date: March 4, 2005 at 18:32:48 Pacific
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it is in my knowledge for you to safely remove one right now, i have seen before two antivirus programs go at war with each other and crash xp on more then one ocassion. but now it is in my best opinion to keep pc cillin rather then avg because of the review stirred at www.cnet.com
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Response Number 7
Name: Derek Date: March 4, 2005 at 18:39:52 Pacific
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Keatharo
Have you a sub-link to that review you mentioned? I'm interested.
Derek.W
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Response Number 8
Name: devils6889 Date: March 4, 2005 at 23:07:28 Pacific
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i wouldn't do it. i ran a trial of pc cillin once, and forgot to disable norton at startup. they both started up and froze my computer as soon as i was able to log in to my account. I dont remember how i fixed it, but maybe i went into safemode or something. I really wouldnt run 2 AV's. most even have warnings saying that it could cause conflicts w/ otehr AVs.
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Response Number 9
Name: Vallequion Date: March 5, 2005 at 07:37:25 Pacific
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Thank you for all your comments.
While I've been using the two I have had no problems with conflicts and PC is running as fast as it ever has. However I have decided to run only the PC-CILLIN as my real time scanner but keep both updated and run both when I manually scan the system every now and then (obviously not at the same time!). As for performance in games etc I always turn off any AV or other unecessary programs eg. MSN Messenger etc (Unless playing an Internt game.)
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