Windows defender necessary when running avg?

M$SE + MBAM + WinPatrol = happiness for me.

I use Avira, malwarebytes and cookienator along with Tuneup utilities 2010, it keeps my pc working like a champion. Everyone has there own preference.

You do not need to run windows defender when you have a decent anti-virus. Try avira.

Mind personal preference.

musiclover7 said:

Wondering what others feel about this. Is it beneficial, necessary, or just useless over kill to run both avg free, and windows defender at the same time? I usually run one of the other, or another app like avira. I have been running windows 7 for almost 2 months now with nothing but windows defender, and have had no issues. I installed avg, ran a scan, and it found nothing..

Any advice appreciated!!

1. benefits of running windows defender:
Windows Defender integrates with Internet Explorer , guards its settings , monitors the system for changes such as new driver/service installation and start-ups , monitors executables , monitors the memory directly .

In addition , it gets regular updates from Microsoft - automatically about twice per week ; manually - new updated can be installed more than once per day. WD is light on resourses , doesn't conflict with other AVs. it offers light HIPS protection too in Spynet mode....with an advanced membership.

2. is it needed ? :
not really if you have a good av...like nav/mse/nod/avast etc...because these cover most bases esp when coupled with things like mbam/winpatrol/hiitman etc

3.ummm...with Avg:
honestly i don't see a downside in running WD with AVG but i see a lot of downsides of running AVG

if your avg protects against malware or spyware then no, although I've never notice a speed increase when disabling it either.