multiple real-time protection

[boy]

Hi,

I am running AVG antivirus. I also have Windows Defender with real-
time protection.

Do I need to disable WD's real-time protection to prevent the
conflict ....?

Is it a rule that only one product should provide the real-time
protection....?


Thanks.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I am running AVG antivirus. I also have Windows Defender with real-
time protection.

Do I need to disable WD's real-time protection to prevent the
conflict ....?

Is it a rule that only one product should provide the real-time
protection....?

Protection against?

Viruses (Virus, Trojans, Worms...)
Spyware/Adware...

My suggestion...

Avira AntiVir (free) or eSet NOD32 (AV only, not free)
plus
MalwareBytes (consistent scanning, removal; free) or MalwareBytes (active
protection, not free)

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Hi,

I am running AVG antivirus. I also have Windows Defender with real-
time protection.

Do I need to disable WD's real-time protection to prevent the
conflict ....?

How could they (AVG and WD) possibly "conflict?" They're two
completely different applications, serving two different and completely
separate functions. AVG is an anti-virus application and Windows
Defender is an anti-adware/anti-spyware application. They don't
overlap, at all. And you do need both types of protection. (By the
way, WD isn't particularly great at its stated purpose; you should
consider replacing it with a better product, such as Spybot Search &
Destroy or MalwareBytes.

Is it a rule that only one product should provide the real-time
protection....?

That's generally true if you're using two of the same type product, but
that doesn't apply to the situation you've described.


--

Bruce Chambers

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killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot

 

[smlunatick]

Hi,

I am running AVG antivirus. I also have Windows Defender with real-
time protection.

Do I need to disable WD's real-time protection to prevent the
conflict ....?

Is it a rule that only one product should provide the real-time
protection....?

Thanks.

Windows Defender is a spyware protection system. Most anti-virus now
tends to turn it off. Are you sure it is active?

 

[Twayne]

In

Hi,

I am running AVG antivirus. I also have Windows Defender
with real- time protection.

Do I need to disable WD's real-time protection to prevent
the conflict ....?

Is it a rule that only one product should provide the
real-time protection....?


Thanks.

No. The rule is to not have more than one of the SAME function
program running at once. e.g. two AV programs doing realtime
monitoring, etc.. They'll sometimes see each other's actions
and storage and give a false report of a virus.

HTH,

Twayne`

 

[Twayne]

In

How could they (AVG and WD) possibly "conflict?"

Duhhh, that's what you're being asked, dummy.



They're

 

[Twayne]

In

Protection against?

Viruses (Virus, Trojans, Worms...)
Spyware/Adware...

My suggestion...

Avira AntiVir (free) or eSet NOD32 (AV only, not free)
plus
MalwareBytes (consistent scanning, removal; free) or
MalwareBytes (active protection, not free)

Too lazy to answer the OP's question or what?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I am running AVG antivirus. I also have Windows Defender with real-
time protection.

Do I need to disable WD's real-time protection to prevent the
conflict ....?

Is it a rule that only one product should provide the real-time
protection....?

Protection against?

Viruses (Virus, Trojans, Worms...)
Spyware/Adware...

My suggestion...

Avira AntiVir (free) or eSet NOD32 (AV only, not free)
plus
MalwareBytes (consistent scanning, removal; free) or MalwareBytes
(active protection, not free)

Too lazy to answer the OP's question or what?

I answered it.

Not everything has to be answered with "Yes" or "No". Sometimes, answering
using basic logic clears things up much better. I chose to do that.

How you choose to answer (usually preceeded by a snipe at someone else who
answered and long after you read all the other answers and figured out how
to phrase yours so it looks 'just different enough', methinks) is your
thing. ;-)

 

[boy]

Thanks a lot. This did explained it.

And actually my WD get disabled often and I keep enabling it manually.
Now I understand why.
I should probably uninstall it completely.

And I do have Spybot, MalwareBytes, A-Squared, WebRoot Sweeper,
CCleaner and actually installed Windows Essentials yesterday but
disabled the real-time protection, just use it for manual scanning.

And they all FREEEEEEEEEE......!

And your priceless advise is also FREEEEEEEE....!


Thanks to you all.

 

[Twayne]

In

I answered it.

Not everything has to be answered with "Yes" or "No".
Sometimes, answering using basic logic clears things up
much better. I chose to do that.
How you choose to answer (usually preceeded by a snipe at
someone else who answered and long after you read all the
other answers and figured out how to phrase yours so it
looks 'just different enough', methinks) is your thing. ;-)

I calls 'em as I sees 'em.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I calls 'em as I sees 'em.

So said the blind man...
;-)

 

[Twayne]

In

So said the blind man...
;-)

as he walked into the saw mill and saw dust.

 

[RJK]

How could they (AVG and WD) possibly "conflict?" They're two completely
different applications, serving two different and completely separate
functions. AVG is an anti-virus application and Windows Defender is an
anti-adware/anti-spyware application. They don't overlap, at all. And
you do need both types of protection. (By the way, WD isn't particularly
great at its stated purpose; you should consider replacing it with a
better product, such as Spybot Search & Destroy or MalwareBytes.



That's generally true if you're using two of the same type product, but
that doesn't apply to the situation you've described.


--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand
Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot

AVG advises that it's not necessary to use WD as, WD's function is covered
in one of AVG full Internet Security suite modules ! Now whether WD would
catch something that AVG suite might miss is another issue but, I've not
spotted anything that AVG caught, that WD missed.
Last year, after finding that WD was not happy co-existing with AVG, ( or
vice-versa ?! ), I did some testing with a biggish batch of malware, all of
which WD intercepted before AVG did. After removing WD, AVG caught it all,
so, reluctantly, I removed WD from my main PC.

regards, Richard

 

[Bruce Chambers]

AVG advises that it's not necessary to use WD as, WD's function is covered
in one of AVG full Internet Security suite modules !

Ah! You'd neglected to mention in the original post that your were
using AVG *Suite*. This being the case, the use WD is redundant.





--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot

 

[RJK]

Ah! You'd neglected to mention in the original post that your were using
AVG *Suite*. This being the case, the use WD is redundant.

....not "my" OP, btw ...
I think we're partially at cross purposes here, i.e. you're more right than
I, in that the OP did say "AVG anti-virus" (possibly 'free" ?), and not, as
I started rambling on about - "AVG Internet Security suite"

regards, Richard

 

[jack wilkinson]

YOU SHOULD NOT REALLY HAVE MORE THAN 1 ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE ON YOUR PC AVG
WILL DO IT ALL BECAUSE IF YOU HAVE MORE THAN 1 EVENTUALLY THEY WILL CATCHUP
WITH EACH OTHER AND CAUSE YOUR SYSTEM TO CRASH

 

[Twayne]

In

YOU SHOULD NOT REALLY HAVE MORE THAN 1 ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE
ON YOUR PC AVG WILL DO IT ALL BECAUSE IF YOU HAVE MORE THAN
1 EVENTUALLY THEY WILL CATCHUP WITH EACH OTHER AND CAUSE
YOUR SYSTEM TO CRASH

BS. Besides not knowing how to type on a newsgroup, you should
know that the actual problem will almost never be a crash, but
will be one detecting the other's activity as that of a virus
or other malware. You also will have two programs trying to
access possibly the same data at the same time, which could
result in error messages.

Twayne