Malware protection same as anitvirus or different
Ive been instructed that Its not good to have 2 different antivirus software installed on the same pc,however would installing a specific protection such as malwarebytes or adware also conflict with a normal antivirus I have been reading conflicting articles to this question van someone please clarify for me
July 15th, 2011 6:40am

Hello, that depends of the used antiviruses. What is sure, running two anti-viruses may reduce the performance of your computer. See this example: http://www.computing.net/answers/security/anti-virus-conflicts/25223.html Note that you can find two anti-viruses that does not cause conflits if they are running together. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights. Microsoft Student Partner 2010 / 2011 Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator: Security Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: Security Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuration Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure, Configuration Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows 7, Configuring Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Enterprise Administrator
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July 15th, 2011 6:53am

On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:33:31 +0000, NYC AND LOS ANGELES DUDE wrote: Ive been instructed that Its not good to have 2 different antivirus software installed on the same pc, That's not quite correct. Having two installed is not a problem; having two running at the same time is the problem. They can adversely affect your performance and cause problems as they conflict with each other. however would installing a specific protection such as malwarebytes or adware also conflict with a normal antivirus I have been reading conflicting articles to this question van someone please clarify for me No it wouldn't. You need an antispyware program in addition to an anti-virus, and MalwareBytes AntiMalware is the best choice. Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP
July 15th, 2011 11:16am

"K Blake" wrote in message news:f3a3edd7-dadd-48dc-8aa6-278e1b1c2692... On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:33:31 +0000, NYC AND LOS ANGELES DUDE wrote: Ive been instructed that Its not good to have 2 different antivirus software installed on the same pc, That's not quite correct. Having two installed is not a problem; having two running at the same time is the problem. They can adversely affect your performance and cause problems as they conflict with each other. however would installing a specific protection such as malwarebytes or adware also conflict with a normal antivirus I have been reading conflicting articles to this question van someone please clarify for me No it wouldn't. You need an antispyware program in addition to an anti-virus, and MalwareBytes AntiMalware is the best choice. Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP While I agree that MBAM is the best of the bunch - I have had problems with it, inasmuch as the latest download offers real-time protection as well as a scanner. In my Vista system (with MSE as anti-virus), the real-time protection caused some heavy processor usage until I disabled it - and then produced a crash-type error message. The scanner works fine (better than almost anything else, in fact) - but be careful of running the real-time protection at the same time as your normal AV. -- Noel Paton | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi | CrashFixPC | The Three-toed Sloth
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July 15th, 2011 7:13pm

I have 3 win7 Ult machines in lab running Client installs of Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) as "realtime" protection, and each has MBAM installed for scheduled scans. No conflicts so far. For "kicks" I have even run a FEP scan while a MBAM scan was already running. Heavy CPU usage , but no REAL issues. As MSE and FEP (Standalone client) are so much alike , I would expect that MSE and MBAM would also happily co-exist. Big benefit of MSE, is that it is free! Kind regards Eoin PS MBAM is not running "realtime" on these 3 pcs , just as scheduled scans.
July 15th, 2011 11:37pm

"remiskeet" wrote in message news:0fbceb58-a3a9-4950-97fd-46ad55981305... I have 3 win7 Ult machines in lab running Client installs of Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) as "realtime" protection, and each has MBAM installed for scheduled scans. No conflicts so far. For "kicks" I have even run a FEP scan while a MBAM scan was already running. Heavy CPU usage , but no REAL issues. As MSE and FEP (Standalone client) are so much alike , I would expect that MSE and MBAM would also happily co-exist. Big benefit of MSE, is that it is free! Kind regards Eoin PS MBAM is not running "realtime" on these 3 pcs , just as scheduled scans. Just as a FWIW, running an AV scan at the same time as an MBAM scan is counter-productive. If you run a full system scan with MBAM, the AV also gets a look at each file as it's scanned by MBAM anyhow, and can flag anything missed by MBAM (and some of the stuff that MBAM flags). I have seen this behaviour in a number of different AV's on a number of OS's, so I believe that it's likely to always be the case. The full system scan by the AV therefore becomes unnecessary, and just increased wear-and-tear on the HD. My warning was about the real-time protection offered, rather than the scanner. It may be that the system would have settled down after a while, as real-time protection may be scanning to produce a files white-list - but I wasn't intending to do anything other than scan with it anyhow, so just disabled the real-time protection -- Noel Paton | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi | CrashFixPC | The Three-toed Sloth
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July 17th, 2011 5:10am

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