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    Anyone tried running 2 anti-virus programs at the same time?

    I'm planning to install Symantec Anti-Virus Corporate and Kaspersky Anti-Virus on the same machine to give better AV coverage.

    Has anyone tried anything similar and are there likely to be problems?

    (Panda Titanium trashed my copy of WinXP when I installed it on a PC already with Norton AV).

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    It's really not advisable to run 2 AV packages at the same time.

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    why would one not be enough....what are you doing that warrents that level of protection ?
    It is Inevitable.....


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    I am succesfully running AVG 7.0 and Norton anti-virus at the same time.

    If you are confident that your av software is picking everything up then there's no reason to run two.

    I'm running two because I have been evaluating AVG and norton av is part of a security suite.
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    Do you honestly think you need two anti-virus apps? I'd like to know what you get up to that makes you think you need two.
    To err is human. To really foul things up ... you need a computer.

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    I'd use Kaspersky over Norton tbh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by yamangman
    Do you honestly think you need two anti-virus apps? I'd like to know what you get up to that makes you think you need two.
    What are you insinuating or are you just yanking my chain? Read my post again.

    In order to remove my norton av I have to uninstall the whole suite then reinstall the firewall. Not sure if this is possible and I can't be ars*d to find out either.

    I've also experienced viruses that are picked up by one av prog and not the other.
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    Quote Originally Posted by davidstone28
    I'm planning to install Symantec Anti-Virus Corporate and Kaspersky Anti-Virus on the same machine to give better AV coverage.

    Has anyone tried anything similar and are there likely to be problems?

    (Panda Titanium trashed my copy of WinXP when I installed it on a PC already with Norton AV).
    Yes it is possable to do and there shuould not be much of a hit on system resources.



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    I know someone who has this because her dads an IT teacher or something, she obviously didnt believe me when i told her its not meant to be a good idea

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    I have 2 installed on my system, but with only one active.

    There are very good reasons for having 2, has i have not found any anti virus thgat can deal with all the threats out there.



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    Thanks for the replies.

    The only reason I am considering 2 is because I only have licenses for Symantec Corporate and Kaspersky (Vanilla), when ideally I would like to have a multi-user licence for Kaspersky Pro (deeper scanning, better feature set etc).

    But I'm not sure its worth the addiotnal cost to pay for another licence - thats why I'm considering running 2 in conjunction (the Kaspersky engine and detection rate is far superior to NAV's particularly with compressed files).

    I suspect that the more comprehensive the AV suite, the greater the likelihood of conflict (my experience when trying to run Panda Ti with NAV).

    Might try it on a test machine and see what happens.

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    AVG Free can be got here. Seems to be very good i.e. I've had no probs.

    http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5
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    Ta for the link but AVG has very weak detection rates - about 80% in one study compared to about McAffee 94%, and Kaspersky 97%. If I can find the link I'll post it, but personally, wouldn't want to rely on AVG.

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    I've changed from AVG to F-Prot for a while, give it a try-out.
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    how are you finding f-prot compared to avg 0iD ?
    It is Inevitable.....


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    Quote Originally Posted by ikonia
    how are you finding f-prot compared to avg 0iD ?
    I was frustrated with AVG as it often had trouble removing or quarantining viruses on the kids pc's. F-Prot thus far has been 100% effective sorting out what AVG 7 pro couldn't handle. So, at the mo, i'm impressed.
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