Can two virus programs be run on one computer?

I have NAV and AVG (freeware). I am running them at the same time.

I use WIN98SE.

Will they work ok together?

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:48:59 -0500, "Fred" <spamfred@bellsouth.net>
wrote:

>I have NAV and AVG (freeware). I am running them at the same time.
>
>I use WIN98SE.
>
>Will they work ok together?
>
It can cause problems running 2 AV products together, but NAV 2002 or
2003 and AVG seem to co0exist reasonably happily.
I use NAV 2003 as my main AV with AVG as an on demand scanner.

Taff.................



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"Fred" <spamfred@bellsouth.net> wrote in
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> I have NAV and AVG (freeware). I am running them at the same time.
>
> I use WIN98SE.
>
> Will they work ok together?
>
>

In general, one should only have one AV program running in the background,
and leave any other for on-demand use only. There are probably
combinations that will co-exist without conflict, and you may have found
one. But any upgrade to one may break that happy condition.

I use AVG as my memory-resident anti-virus (because it uses only a small
amount of memory). Then I perform a complete scan once a month with McAfee.

You can use two or even more than two anti-virus programs at the same time
but running all of them in the background would eat up all your resources.
It's like taking too much medicine. You ward off the bugs but then you're
too drowsy to do anything.


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"Fred" <spamfred@bellsouth.net> wrote in
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> I have NAV and AVG (freeware). I am running them at the same time.
>
> I use WIN98SE.
>
> Will they work ok together?
>
>

In general, one should only have one AV program running in the background,
and leave any other for on-demand use only. There are probably
combinations that will co-exist without conflict, and you may have found
one. But any upgrade to one may break that happy condition.

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:15:07 +0000, taff <taff@the-valleys.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:48:59 -0500, "Fred" <spamfred@bellsouth.net>
>wrote:
>
>>I have NAV and AVG (freeware). I am running them at the same time.
>>
>>I use WIN98SE.
>>
>>Will they work ok together?
>>
>It can cause problems running 2 AV products together, but NAV 2002 or
>2003 and AVG seem to co0exist reasonably happily.
>I use NAV 2003 as my main AV with AVG as an on demand scanner.
>
>Taff.................
>

Make sure you disable the NAV background scanner if you are going to
be using another scanner to scan. NAV will block access to any program
that tries to access a file that NAV recognizes as a virus. For
example. If you have the blaster worm, and are scanning with McAfee,
when McAfee gets to the infected file, NAV will block access and
McAfee will freeze. NAV cannot remove this worm while it is running,
but McAfee can, so make sure to disable the NAV background scanner
first.