I was always told to only run one virus program to avoid conflicts. I have
Symantec now and would like to add Microsoft Antispyware beta also. Can they
be run at same time?

Thank you,

Gerry
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Please reply to group and direct.

>I was always told to only run one virus program to avoid conflicts. I have
> Symantec now and would like to add Microsoft Antispyware beta also. Can
> they
> be run at same time?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Gerry
> (E-Mail Removed)
>
> Please reply to group and direct.

Hi,

MSAS is not an antivirus tool, it's antispyware one.. It protects against a
little different kind of malware applications. And yes, (it is even
recommended!!) to run MSAS along with antivirus tool.

--
Pozdrawiam serdecznie / Kind regards
Mikolaj Kaminski
MS-MVP, Poland

Thank you, I wasn't reading carefully enough.

Another query, can you run more than one spyware program at a time??

"Mikolaj" wrote:

> >I was always told to only run one virus program to avoid conflicts. I have
> > Symantec now and would like to add Microsoft Antispyware beta also. Can
> > they
> > be run at same time?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Gerry
> > (E-Mail Removed)
> >
> > Please reply to group and direct.
>
> Hi,
>
> MSAS is not an antivirus tool, it's antispyware one.. It protects against a
> little different kind of malware applications. And yes, (it is even
> recommended!!) to run MSAS along with antivirus tool.
>
> --
> Pozdrawiam serdecznie / Kind regards
> Mikolaj Kaminski
> MS-MVP, Poland
>
>

Hey Gerys

Yes you can have different Antispy Programs installed without them causing
any problems, You should avoid having more than one with real time protection
as that could cause conflicts and its not a good idea to scan with more than
one at the same time as it will slow the system down but apart from that they
would work well together,

Each Antispy company will have a different set of definitions so to be sure
your system is clean and stays clean its good to have more than one
installed, Most user's would use programs like Ad-Aware SE and Spybot Search
& Destroy with MS Antispy and they will not cause any conflicts with each
other,

If you use Spybot you wouldnt need to enable the Tea-Timer feature as MS
Antispy's real time protection would be enough but you can still use the
Immunize feature on Spybot and the SDHelper protection,

Adaware doesn't offer RealTime protection on the free remover so that
wouldnt interfere with MS Antispy, There plenty of other choices like
Spysweeper which has Real Time protection but you need to pay for that
program and it still works well with MS Antispy although you may get double
warnings if you use the Real Time on both,

Andy

Thank you very much Andy.

"AndyManchesta" wrote:

>
> Hey Gerys
>
> Yes you can have different Antispy Programs installed without them causing
> any problems, You should avoid having more than one with real time protection
> as that could cause conflicts and its not a good idea to scan with more than
> one at the same time as it will slow the system down but apart from that they
> would work well together,
>
> Each Antispy company will have a different set of definitions so to be sure
> your system is clean and stays clean its good to have more than one
> installed, Most user's would use programs like Ad-Aware SE and Spybot Search
> & Destroy with MS Antispy and they will not cause any conflicts with each
> other,
>
> If you use Spybot you wouldnt need to enable the Tea-Timer feature as MS
> Antispy's real time protection would be enough but you can still use the
> Immunize feature on Spybot and the SDHelper protection,
>
> Adaware doesn't offer RealTime protection on the free remover so that
> wouldnt interfere with MS Antispy, There plenty of other choices like
> Spysweeper which has Real Time protection but you need to pay for that
> program and it still works well with MS Antispy although you may get double
> warnings if you use the Real Time on both,
>
> Andy