Dual boot - two antivirus programs?

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Steven Fleischer

I'm dual booting Win 98SE and XP Pro on partitions c: and d:
respectively. Most of my work is now done in XP and am running Norton
AntiVirus on that operating system only. Symantec says that it is not
possible to have Norton AntiVirus installed on both operating systems on
a hard drive since both installations would be trying to handle
protection of the boot sector.

Would installing something like AVG antivirus on the 98 partition work,
or would it have the same issue? What do folks do for an antivirus
solution on dual boot systems?

Thanks,
Steve Fleischer
 
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CZ

I'm dual booting Win 98SE and XP Pro on partitions c: and d:
respectively. Most of my work is now done in XP and am running Norton
AntiVirus on that operating system only. Symantec says that it is not
possible to have Norton AntiVirus installed on both operating systems on
a hard drive since both installations would be trying to handle
protection of the boot sector.

Would installing something like AVG antivirus on the 98 partition work,
or would it have the same issue? What do folks do for an antivirus
solution on dual boot systems?

Steve:

Assuming you are using XP's boot loader, you should not have any problems.

I dual boot on one computer; with NAV in both op systems: no problems

Another computer multi-boots with various op systems involving AVG v6 free,
NAV and SAVCE v8.1: no problems
 
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Brian Coats

Norton Techs are not to smart. They have told me I couldn’t use Vcom
system commander with Nortons Virus or Ghost.

When using Ghost. I just disabled system commander in windows 98se.
The used it. After restore sometime I have sometimes have to use win
98se boot disk and type fdisk /mbr. I enable system commander after
restore and no problems.

I had at one time. Windows 98se WindowsMe and Windows Xp all with
Nortons Virus Installed. With No problem. It did ask my to allow
C:\SC\WINMBR.EXE I just say continue.

However, You may not be able to do that now if you have the version
that require activating.
 

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