2 anti-virus products on a PC

[Mike]

I wanted to know if it is a good idea to have two anti-virus programs
installed on a home PC?
I have one that came with a motherboard, PC-cillin and the other one that I
think I would prefer would be Norton Anti-Virus.
Will the two conflict with one another or should I choose only one, and
which one?

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Mike

 

[Heather]

I wanted to know if it is a good idea to have two anti-virus programs
installed on a home PC?
I have one that came with a motherboard, PC-cillin and the other one that I
think I would prefer would be Norton Anti-Virus.
Will the two conflict with one another or should I choose only one, and
which one?

You would quite probably have a conflict with two running in the background
at the same time. I have two, but the other one is the manual F-Prot for
DOS. I run it from time to time. I have used it for some 7 years. My
other one is EZ Trust.

As for choosing between PC-Cillan and Norton? Can't help you there as I
wouldn't use either of them.......personal choice. If you are running
Windows ME, Norton 2004 causes problems with it.

Heather

 

[koorb]

I wanted to know if it is a good idea to have two anti-virus programs
installed on a home PC?
I have one that came with a motherboard, PC-cillin and the other one that I
think I would prefer would be Norton Anti-Virus.
Will the two conflict with one another or should I choose only one, and
which one?

Having two real time resident scanners is not advisable because they
could start to argue with each other.

As far as Cillin Vs Norton goes. I would rather not have an AV.

 

[Geese_Hunter]

I wanted to know if it is a good idea to have two anti-virus programs
installed on a home PC?
I have one that came with a motherboard, PC-cillin and the other one that I
think I would prefer would be Norton Anti-Virus.
Will the two conflict with one another or should I choose only one, and
which one?

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Mike

I've got a couple of AV scanners on my PC. However the only 1 that
starts up and runs all the time automatically is AVG. The others are
there for me to turn on after I turn AVG off. Having 2 Av programs
running at the same time is not good as it could corrupt files, miss
virus files & will conflict with each other. Just like having 2
firewall programs running on your PC at the same time is not a good
idea.

 

[Jan Il]

Mike,

I wanted to know if it is a good idea to have two anti-virus programs
installed on a home PC?
I have one that came with a motherboard, PC-cillin and the other one that I
think I would prefer would be Norton Anti-Virus.
Will the two conflict with one another or should I choose only one, and
which one?

I'm certainly no pro, but, FWIW, I also use F-Prot as a backup to my regular
AV. F-Prot is non-intrusive, not a resource hog, runs only when you want it
too, and is very effective. I check and update them both daily, and run the
regular AV everyday, with a double check with F-Prot from the DOS prompt
every other day, unless virus threats are high. Not that I don't trust my
regular AV, but, as with SpyBot and Adaware, there may be a difference of
information in each, so sometimes what one misses the other picks up. Having
two AV's active at the same time is not a good thing. From personal
experience, nothing Norton shares well with any rival AV. <g>

Good luck.
Jan

 

[Travis]

Dear: Mike

No. If you have two anti-virus progams running when you scan your anti-virus
will think the other anti-virus is a virus and this is called a false
warning. Remove one of them.

 

[brushes]

Dear: Mike

No. If you have two anti-virus progams running when you scan your anti-virus
will think the other anti-virus is a virus and this is called a false
warning. Remove one of them.

I find this not to be true, the machine I use for cleaning other peoples
drives has both AVG and Norton 2003 installed and running. They do not
conflict with each other at all, I normally scan with both (consecutively)
and I have found that each has, on occasions, picked up something that the
other has missed. If one is scanning and comes across a dirty file the other
pops up an alert which can then be closed.

Of the two AVG is far smoother but the bug that I suffer from with Norton
(constant scanning of floppy drive) is not related to the presence of AVG.

B

 

[FromTheRafters]

I find this not to be true, the machine I use for cleaning other peoples
drives has both AVG and Norton 2003 installed and running. They do not
conflict with each other at all, I normally scan with both (consecutively)
and I have found that each has, on occasions, picked up something that the
other has missed. If one is scanning and comes across a dirty file the other
pops up an alert which can then be closed.

From what I have gathered here, this *is* the conflict. The AV
installed last gets the front row seat and usually the glory of at
least appearing to be better at detecting items.