Windows Tweaks and more » Security http://xptweak.net Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:58:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Running more than one Anti-Virus on your computer http://xptweak.net/running-more-than-one-anti-virus-on-your-computer/ http://xptweak.net/running-more-than-one-anti-virus-on-your-computer/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:29:54 +0000 admin http://xptweak.net/2009/02/06/running-more-than-once-anti-virus-on-your-computer/ Most computer illeterate people think that if they have Norton, Avast and Kaspersky installed all together then the pc will have maximum protection. First there is no such thing is maximum security, second it is exactly the opposite as running more than one anti-virus on your computer may cause conflicts between the programs. Actually long ago I have contacted AVG about a problem I had with their program and they told me that I have some leftovers from Norton and this could be a problem. Here is what they said

Generally, not only by our company, the use of more than one security solution under the same operating system is not recommended because of possible conflict in their main parts.
Usually the "resident shield" functionality of the products may conflict with each other, resulting in unpredictable behavior in your computer and impairing response to a potential virus threat.

As you can see from the statement above not only AVG recommend not to use more than one anti-virus software, so don’t do it.

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