You think that you have them setup to work with each other. Wait until one cancels the other one out when a nasty comes in and you have to format and reinstall.
Never run 2 anti-virus applications together. It's OK to run an anti-spyware application or two along with 1 anti-virus, but you are asking for trouble running 2 or more A/V.
However, as you guys seem to think you know best so I'll give up the argument.
I get it all the time over at McAfee too. Which makes me feel like....
There's always the alternative way of dealing with it of course.
I was using AVG but have switched to Avira for anti-virus.
I'm also using Ad-aware (run scans manually, as needed), Spybot S&D (run scans automatically, daily), Windows Defender (automatic operation w/ scans daily) & Comodo (firewall, only).
Ill give you some advice on defender-
Set it to notify for software not yet catagorized for risk, and to notify if software permitted to run makes system changes on its own
This is why:
If for example, you download a app, that has not yet been classified for risk and this app included a new nasty little undetected bug, that decides to download another bug that makes system changes- you are alerted, and can disable,prevent the run, and if neccesssary remove the app BEFORE it executes its package.
This works in conjuction with UAC, but as opposed to UAC, the user has already permitted this app to run thus UAC will not prompt. Otherwise, Your system becomes infected, and one day in the near future, when there is a definition available, it is then flagged by your AV, but the damage is already done.
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Hi All I have Mcafee 2009 working perfectly fine with WIN 7 RC.
Although not free, my choice is PC Tools Internet Security.
They also have a freeware version available here:
PC Tools AntiVirus Free Edition
I like my avast. Small memory foot-print. Good detection rate. Totally happy with Avast.
They just came out with version 2010.0.0.459 recently and it officially doesn't support windows 7, but it seems to work o k with it so far. You really have to be extra careful when uninstalling Mcafee some times. I used their clean uninstall tool, and some of my programs didn't work right afterward. I had to fix them by using system restore. It seems that the uninstall tool took some things out that it shouldn't of, but system restore saved the day. The only reason I uninstalled Mcafee is because you can't manually add programs to the trusted list, so it would remove some good programs files saying that they were infected, but they are not, but you couldn't tell Mcafee to leave these program alone, so after every scan Mcafee did, I had to manually restore these programs. So I'm giving Kaspersky 2010 a whirl. So far so good.
Is anyone noticing a huge drop in performance with AVG start up takes like a minute (normally about 15 secs)
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