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Posted by Milo \(MSPSS\) on October 19, 2007, 8:25 am
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1. "- One product doing things even though it's supposed to be disabled."
This product have services running all the time updates or among other
things
2. "- One product refusing to install until the other product has been
uninstalled." ( Lately some of the AV's does this action and well quite
often dont literally uninstall on your queue they tend to leave remnant
files and a total headache )
What if along the way one of the product committed to an update and
such update
proceeds to detect other AV / Security apps.
3. " - One product thinking the the other product's definition data
contains a virus." ( I encountered this once it was a mess )
This I would add:
What if the other AV detected and quarantined a file or such an infection -
can you manually tell the
other AV not to detect or do same thing to the said file ( detection occurs
not by namesakes but
by specific algorithm of a file ). They will end up chewing each other.
But then again this are just an option the final call is yours to make.
>
>>Understand the fact that both has real time monitoring and virus engines
>>as
>>such possible scenario as conflict would occur " It's like having fort
>>knox
>>in your system - worst scenario " nothing can go in and out.
>>
>>And also it would slowdown your system, other than that this products have
>>their own firewall imagine having 2 of them - it is possible to run both
>>but
>>in my experience it can cause more harm than good in your system having
>>both. As per rule of the thumb have one Anti-virus - one Firewall and well
>>2-3 anti-spyware with 2 of them anti-spyware not running their real time
>>scanner and should serve only as a back up for second opinion or should
>>the
>>all other running cant take out an infection.
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> I'm not planning to have them running simultaneously. The idea is
> that at any time one of them will be installed and running; the other
> will be installed but disabled.
>
> At any time there will be only one real-time scanner running, and only
> one firewall running, so I don't understand how I can have the sort of
> problem you describe. Or am I being naive?
>
> The sort of problem I might expect is:
> - One product refusing to install until the other product has been
> uninstalled.
> - One product refusing to install updates until the other product has
> been uninstalled.
> - One product thinking the the other product's definition data
> contains a virus.
> - One product doing things even though it's supposed to be disabled.
>
> Are any of these likely to happen?
>
>>>I want to have McAfee Internet Security 2007 and Norton Antivirus
>>> installed on the same machine simultaneously.
>>>
>>> Only one of the products will be enabled at any time. So, when McAfee
>>> is running, Norton will be installed but disabled, and vice versa.
>>>
>>> Will that work?
>>>
>>> In case you're wondering about my sanity, this is the reason: I
>>> occasionally have to connect to a customer's site by VPN, and the
>>> customer requires that any machine that is connected to their network
>>> have Norton Antivirus. Under all other cirucmstance, however, I want
>>> to use McAfee, because I prefer it, have paid for it, and don't to be
>>> dependent on my customer for product updates.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Andy Bowles
>
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