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Posted by FredW on July 2, 2009, 12:30 pm
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>FredW wrote:
>>
>> Of course any AV-program will start working immediately after
>> installation, that is the purpose of the program.
>
>Well, Fred, I think that the purpose of any program is to do what I want
>it to do when I tell it to do so.
I guess very few av-programs will do what you desire.
It is the purpose of any av-program to protect you (your PC) real-time.
What you want is no longer available in most av-programs.
What you want (or what I would want) is of no concern to the makers of
these programs, they decide what you should want and that's it.
>............... And if an AV program has a Guard
>function, the first thing it should ask is whether to turn that function
>on or not. It should never turn that function on by default, precisely
>because doing so might mess up what's already installed and running.
Many av-programs do not have a separate "real-time guard" function.
And therefore most av-programs will "mess up things".
Also most av-programs will not install when you don't uninstall the
"competition" or will even try to remove the "competition".
>Anyhow, I want to test NOD32. That means I want to know about its scan
>and clean function above all else. So starting its guard function would
>be, erm, annoying.
You cannot regulate the "guard" function of NOD32.
(have you tried to do so with Norton?)
Only when NOD32 (version 4.0.437) is started, you can choose for:
"Disable real-time file protection system".
For Avira I switched off the service "Avira Antivir Guard".
As an alternative I could have selected to have the guard not installed
during installation of Avira Antivir.
>There's a regrettable and growing tendency for makers of anti-malware
>software to want to The Only One.
More av-programs controlling your PC real-time *may* cause unwanted
conflicts and therefore each av-program wants to rule alone.
(and somewhere will also be a commercial factor.)
While I have no problem understanding what you want and why you want so,
I estimate that most av-programs will not satisfy your whishes in this
respect.
Sorry
;-)
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Fred W. (NL)
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