I tried Google for any help on the following topic, but got no definite
results so I thought I would try here.
I used to have Ad-Aware, SUPERAntiSpyware and AVG 8 on my system, but I
got rid of AVG 8 because it took forever to run, (21/2 hrs), and installed
Avast 4.8 Home Edition.
Can anyone please inform me if these three, Ad-Aware -
SUPERAntiSpyware - Avast, are compatible with each other or will conflicts
arise between them?
Any recommendations would also be appreciated.
System: Acer 2450 laptop
Windows XP - Home - SP3
Explorer 7
Windows Defender

No software of the same design should run together,its like trying to run
WMP along side a 3rd party player,all they do is conflict with each other.

"slick1" wrote:

> I tried Google for any help on the following topic, but got no definite
> results so I thought I would try here.
> I used to have Ad-Aware, SUPERAntiSpyware and AVG 8 on my system, but I
> got rid of AVG 8 because it took forever to run, (21/2 hrs), and installed
> Avast 4.8 Home Edition.
> Can anyone please inform me if these three, Ad-Aware -
> SUPERAntiSpyware - Avast, are compatible with each other or will conflicts
> arise between them?
> Any recommendations would also be appreciated.
> System: Acer 2450 laptop
> Windows XP - Home - SP3
> Explorer 7
> Windows Defender
>
>
>

"slick1" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:ezqqAUQ%(E-Mail Removed)...
> I tried Google for any help on the following topic, but got no definite
> results so I thought I would try here.
> I used to have Ad-Aware, SUPERAntiSpyware and AVG 8 on my system, but I
> got rid of AVG 8 because it took forever to run, (21/2 hrs), and installed
> Avast 4.8 Home Edition.
> Can anyone please inform me if these three, Ad-Aware -
> SUPERAntiSpyware - Avast, are compatible with each other or will conflicts
> arise between them?
> Any recommendations would also be appreciated.
> System: Acer 2450 laptop
> Windows XP - Home - SP3
> Explorer 7
> Windows Defender
>

Ignore Andrew E.'s advice. He only occasionally gets things right, and I
think that's just the laws of probability paying off.

I, and I suspect many other people, run WMP quite happily alongside several
other audio/video players, ne'er a conflict.

I don't blame you for dumping AVG 8 - I did the same (but went to Avira).

Avast is anti-virus software; AdAware and SUPERAntiSpyware aren't and so
won't conflict with Avast. I personally only run the latter two on-demand
rather than in the background, so if AdAware *can* be set to run in the
background (not sure if you can - I'm not too familiar with the more recent
version), and you set SUPERAntiSpyware to do so, I suppose they *might*
clash; but I'd be more concerned with their hogging system resources.

Not sure how Windows Defender affects the mix - never used it myself so I'll
others to comment on that.

You might want to also look at Spyware Blaster
(http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html) which is also
non-resident - run, update, apply protection, quit.

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:15:25 -0600, "slick1"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I tried Google for any help on the following topic, but got no definite
> results so I thought I would try here.
> I used to have Ad-Aware, SUPERAntiSpyware and AVG 8 on my system, but I
> got rid of AVG 8 because it took forever to run, (21/2 hrs), and installed
> Avast 4.8 Home Edition.
> Can anyone please inform me if these three, Ad-Aware -
> SUPERAntiSpyware - Avast, are compatible with each other or will conflicts
> arise between them?


Yes they are. I run them all here, with no problems at all. The only
thing I would avoid doing is running scans with more than one of them
at once.

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Thanks Ken, I'll make sure they don't run at the same time. I'm amazed at
how much better my system runs with-out AVG8 !


"Ken Blake, MVP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:15:25 -0600, "slick1"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> I tried Google for any help on the following topic, but got no
>> definite
>> results so I thought I would try here.
>> I used to have Ad-Aware, SUPERAntiSpyware and AVG 8 on my system, but
>> I
>> got rid of AVG 8 because it took forever to run, (21/2 hrs), and
>> installed
>> Avast 4.8 Home Edition.
>> Can anyone please inform me if these three, Ad-Aware -
>> SUPERAntiSpyware - Avast, are compatible with each other or will
>> conflicts
>> arise between them?
>
>
> Yes they are. I run them all here, with no problems at all. The only
> thing I would avoid doing is running scans with more than one of them
> at once.
>
> --
> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
> Please Reply to the Newsgroup

On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 18:10:14 -0600, "slick1"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Thanks Ken, I'll make sure they don't run at the same time. I'm amazed at
> how much better my system runs with-out AVG8 !


You're welcome. Glad to help.


> "Ken Blake, MVP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news(E-Mail Removed)...
> > On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:15:25 -0600, "slick1"
> > <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> >
> >> I tried Google for any help on the following topic, but got no
> >> definite
> >> results so I thought I would try here.
> >> I used to have Ad-Aware, SUPERAntiSpyware and AVG 8 on my system, but
> >> I
> >> got rid of AVG 8 because it took forever to run, (21/2 hrs), and
> >> installed
> >> Avast 4.8 Home Edition.
> >> Can anyone please inform me if these three, Ad-Aware -
> >> SUPERAntiSpyware - Avast, are compatible with each other or will
> >> conflicts
> >> arise between them?
> >
> >
> > Yes they are. I run them all here, with no problems at all. The only
> > thing I would avoid doing is running scans with more than one of them
> > at once.
> >
> > --
> > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
> > Please Reply to the Newsgroup
>

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