AVg7Pro or McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7.1.0

[Morgan Pugh]

Hi,

I am currently using AVG7 Pro which I bought a while back however I
also have a license for McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7.1.0 from where I
work (all emplyoes can use it on home systems). So which do I use?

I know you can't answer 100% which is better but which would YOU
choose? I just want some peoples opinions on it.

Also would it be possible to run them both on the system at the same
time? Would it cause any problems?

Sorry for the [very] stupid questions but I don't want to spend hours
and hours reading all about it, I just want opinions from others.

Please remember this is McAfee VirusScan Enterprise, not the standard
Home version and AVG7 Professional, not the free version.

TIA

 

[buzz Light Beer]

Hi,

I am currently using AVG7 Pro which I bought a while back however I
also have a license for McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7.1.0 from where I
work (all emplyoes can use it on home systems). So which do I use?

I know you can't answer 100% which is better but which would YOU
choose? I just want some peoples opinions on it.

Also would it be possible to run them both on the system at the same
time? Would it cause any problems?

Sorry for the [very] stupid questions but I don't want to spend hours
and hours reading all about it, I just want opinions from others.

Please remember this is McAfee VirusScan Enterprise, not the standard
Home version and AVG7 Professional, not the free version.

TIA

Just my personal experiences :
I have used Norton since the old DOS days. Still have an old DOS ver
of Norton Utilities on a dust covered floppy somewhere ? My newest box
came pre-loaded w/ McAfee....The first thing I did was uninstall it
and installed Norton System works 2003 w/ NAV 2003.
Recently, not unlike you, I wanted to try another AV...just to check
behind Norton.
I chose Kaspersky 5 personal (KAV). I must confess, I really was
impressed w/ KAV. It found a trojan that NAV had not detected.
Only prob was NAV was crippled while KAV was installed. ( and I only
used KAV to run in the background...not both )
I uninstalled NAV 2003 w/ the intent of keeping the rest of Norton
System Works and then KAV wouldn't work properly ( the NAV 2003
uninstall had left some invalid registry values that screwed up KAV's
JScript access ability.
So to make a long story short, these two AV(s) would not "play"
together on my box....
I think some things like using Opera instead of IE and Poco Mail
instead of Outlook have been helpful preventing virii as well.
Although, I have to use IE for updates ( scares the hell out of me
every time I have to use IE...... )
HTH

 

[Morgan Pugh]

Just my personal experiences :
I have used Norton since the old DOS days. Still have an old DOS ver
of Norton Utilities on a dust covered floppy somewhere ? My newest box
came pre-loaded w/ McAfee....The first thing I did was uninstall it
and installed Norton System works 2003 w/ NAV 2003.
Recently, not unlike you, I wanted to try another AV...just to check
behind Norton.
I chose Kaspersky 5 personal (KAV). I must confess, I really was
impressed w/ KAV. It found a trojan that NAV had not detected.
Only prob was NAV was crippled while KAV was installed. ( and I only
used KAV to run in the background...not both )
I uninstalled NAV 2003 w/ the intent of keeping the rest of Norton
System Works and then KAV wouldn't work properly ( the NAV 2003
uninstall had left some invalid registry values that screwed up KAV's
JScript access ability.
So to make a long story short, these two AV(s) would not "play"
together on my box....
I think some things like using Opera instead of IE and Poco Mail
instead of Outlook have been helpful preventing virii as well.
Although, I have to use IE for updates ( scares the hell out of me
every time I have to use IE...... )
HTH

Thanks

As I have paid for AVG I will just leave that on here for now. I have
McAfee here if I ever want to install it I guess.

 

[buzz Light Beer]

Thanks

As I have paid for AVG I will just leave that on here for now. I have
McAfee here if I ever want to install it I guess.

I certainly didn't mean to discourage you from trying to install both.
They may very well work together ? I would use a proggie like the
freeware *Total Uninstall* to install McAfee. Then if you have
conflict probs, you can do a clean uninstall of McAfee.
HTH

 

[optikl]

buzz Light Beer wrote:

Although, I have to use IE for updates ( scares the hell out of me
every time I have to use IE...... )
HTH

Why should it scare you? Just put the windows update URL in the trusted
zone and change the security for all other zones to high.