NOD32 or other as a non-resident scanner?

[Wilbur Post]

I'm currently using Avast but want to try another AV program. AVG always
seemed to crash when used as a non-resident scanner (in other words I tried
to enable it to not start up with Windows 2000). Every time I ran AVG, it
would then change itself to a start up program, and would eventually not
run or update for some reason.


Can NOD 32 be used as a second scanner and updated manually so that it
doesn't suddenly move it's exe files into startup? I've found that once
these AV programs move into startup, you can't end the programs unless you
unintstall or try a safeboot.

 

[Duane Arnold]

I'm currently using Avast but want to try another AV program. AVG
always seemed to crash when used as a non-resident scanner (in other
words I tried to enable it to not start up with Windows 2000). Every
time I ran AVG, it would then change itself to a start up program, and
would eventually not run or update for some reason.


Can NOD 32 be used as a second scanner and updated manually so that it
doesn't suddenly move it's exe files into startup? I've found that
once these AV programs move into startup, you can't end the programs
unless you unintstall or try a safeboot.

AMON is the resident scanner part of NOD32. I beleive you and tell the
install process of NOD32 to not install AMON and the resident scanner
will nit be installed. You can play with the full 25 day trial version
and see what it does.

Duane

 

[Louise]

I'm currently using Avast but want to try another AV program. AVG always
seemed to crash when used as a non-resident scanner (in other words I tried
to enable it to not start up with Windows 2000). Every time I ran AVG, it
would then change itself to a start up program, and would eventually not
run or update for some reason.


Can NOD 32 be used as a second scanner and updated manually so that it
doesn't suddenly move it's exe files into startup? I've found that once
these AV programs move into startup, you can't end the programs unless you
unintstall or try a safeboot.

there is a free version of Bitdefender available on their
web site. It runs only adds an "on-demand" scanner.