tommi said:
Hi,
I have AVG resident shield and Avast on-access protection being turned on
simultaneously on my pc.
Will they cause any software conflict to each other? Should I just stick to
1 of them instead of using both at the same time? Which one is superior?
The general principle is that you should only have one antivirus
product memroy resident and actively running. If you want to have a
second program available you should turn off the memory resident
functions in that program and just use it manually whenever you want a
"second opinion" on a specific file, group of files, or the entire
hard drive. Having two antivirus programs active at the same time
can cause conflicts, as both try to spring into action whenever a
suspicious circumstance is detected.
As to which of your two is better, that is something that I am not
going to get into. I have used AVG myself for several years now and
it has always been fully adequate in terms of protecting my PC. On
the other hand a number of people who's opinions I respect will say
the same things about Avast.
Instead of having a second antivirus installed I do an occasional
full system scan at
http://housecall.trendmicro.com or one of the
other free scanning sites.
Good luck
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