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is having more than one virus protection good for a computer? my friend uses 3
ad adaware and spybot
i told her to use avg, now shes complaining avg is crashing her computer and stopping the other 2 anti viruses from running
is there an explanation out there?
more than 1 is stupid, it slows your computer down needlessly, plus as your friend can see, they start to interfere with each other :p One decent one on it's own is best if you must run antivirus :p
Last time I checked though, Spybot and AdAware are not antivirus, they're antimalware :p
Some anti-virus won't even install unless you uninstall the existing one. But yeah, crono_logical said it; Ad-Aware and SpyBot aren't anti-virus programs.
Just uninstall all the others you have and use AVG and Spybot and tell your friend to shut up
I just use AVG and some firefox add-ons :p
I have clamwin and avg running simultaneously. I agree I'm wasting cycles but neither program is that intrusive as to cause a noticeable lag.Quote:
Originally Posted by crono_logical
I think I keep clamwin for its tendency not to get compromised by viruses -- every time I actually have to clean somebody's computer, clamwin installs without problem and have saved me(us). It deserves to sit on my computer.
I'm a dork.