At 01:21 PM 23/02/2009, Christopher Fisk wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 05:11 PM 20/02/2009, Christopher Fisk wrote:
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Veech wrote:
> Is there any harm in running more than one AV program at the
same time? I > have three programs installed, AVG 8.0, Spy-Bot
and Malwarebyte. They > each take about 45 mins to 1 hr to
run. Sometimes I'll run 2 of them > overnight at the same
time. Is there any way that doing this will cause > either one
to miss something? Could I possibly run all 3 at the same > time?
Running something like Spy Bot or Malwarebytes at the same time as
an Antivirus scan is unnessary.
Think about it: Your AV program has an "on access" scanner.
When you scan your computer for Malware using Malwarebytes, it's
opening up each file and looking at it for malware.
Before the AV program lets Malwarebytes look at the program it
scans it, and if it's detected as a virus you will get a notification.
I disagree. Running Malwarebytes gives you a double check.
1)Malwarebytes attempts to open the file, your AV checks it.
2)If the AV finds nothing (and since you're running AVG, that's
very likely) Malwarebytes will scan it.
So it's a double check, and frankly, with AVG, you need it.
I didn't say that you don't run Malwarebytes, I said you don't run a
separate AV check, it gets checked while you run the AV.
Oh. Then I guess I agree with you. :)
T
