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.
Christopher Fisk
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