Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Antivirus conflict?

if i try running nortons 05 with avg, r they likely to conflict???



Antivirus conflict?triumph



Yes, you will very likely have conflicts. You should only install ONE antivirus package on your computer.



Not only are you extremely likely to have conflicts between the two, all antivirus software will cause you system to slow down. This is common. On a modern system with modern antivirus software, the penalty is minimal but trying to run multiple packages will significantly slow your system down. This is because the way that antivirus software operates it is seen as virus-like activity by competing antivirus software. Installing Norton and McAfee on a computer simultaneously will often result in a machine that won't work at all. It will boot up, but will run so slowly that it's unusable. Other antivirus software is likely to cause similar problems.



Some antivirus software won't even install if there is another antivirus package installed. The most recent versions of the corporate edition of McAfee will uninstall other antivirus software. If you don't allow it to uninstall the other software, the installation will quit.



Antivirus conflict?worms



I don't think so. I had both on my computer and they worked fine. I still had a virus though (my norton had expired), so I downloaded avast. It found two viruses that AVG did not.

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