yeah the idea here is that one program will catch something that another
program may miss. Obviously it doesn't hurt to run them separately. But
does it do any harm to run them at the same time? Will one stop another
from checking a file?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thane Sherrington" <tsh...@computerconnectionltd.com>
To: <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 09:29
Subject: Re: [H] Running multiple AVs at once?
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
