to all you: A GOOD SUGGESTION:

I use a combination of anti malware software running side by side. Yes this can be done but I use a 64 bit OS, which handles multiple apps like that running side by side in a more stable manner. I run Windows Defender, Malwarebytes and Comodo Firewall without any problems. The rumors about your system becoming unstable while running more than one anti malware program at a time are false. Maybe under a 32 bit system they wouldn't run as well side by side as a 64 bit system, but as far as system instabilities...those just don't happen like they are made to believe. Maybe at worst on a 32 bit system there would be some significant slowdowns depending on your system specifications but that is all. I'm assuming that you are running at least Windows Vista under this fact.

whs said:

The antibiotics I would rub on the Ethernet cable - it gets inside via osmosis.

Oh funk, then YOURS is the way it should be done.. I tried pouring some antibiotic syrup onto the CPU fan and it looked like the PC wasn't quite happy with it

Other than that, I'm a long date AVG user that switched to MSE some months ago and I feel almost fine (I use also Spybot and run a hijackthis scan on a regular basis to see if something just got through).
Plus, UAC and a little bit of sense help me staying away from trouble :)

whs said:

TechWizard86 said:

I use a combination of anti malware software running side by side. Yes this can be done but I use a 64 bit OS, which handles multiple apps like that running side by side in a more stable manner. I run Windows Defender, Malwarebytes and Comodo Firewall without any problems. The rumors about your system becoming unstable while running more than one anti malware program at a time are false. Maybe under a 32 bit system they wouldn't run as well side by side as a 64 bit system, but as far as system instabilities...those just don't happen like they are made to believe. Maybe at worst on a 32 bit system there would be some significant slowdowns depending on your system specifications but that is all. I'm assuming that you are running at least Windows Vista under this fact.

I guess it depends which ones you run together. Try Norton plus McAfee and see what happens - LOL. And I do not see the difference between 32 and 64bit. Why would 64bit behave differently?

It is because a 64 bit operating handles larger memory requests better than a 32 bit operating system. 32+32=64. A 64 bit operating system processor can handle twice as much dataflow from a requesting application or applications than a 32 bit OS can and that is one of the main reasons it can handle running antimalware apps better than a 32 bit OS and the reason why it can manage memory over 4GB at all.