Veech,
Over our many years, we have tried and suggested many models (individual)
for keeping the baddies at bay. I have followed all of the suggested
models. Not one of them have been perfect!
Whatever you feel is OK is okay with me............I just do not know.
Personally, I use ESET. If I suspect that something "bad" got thru, I use
Spybot, Malwarebytes, and, any other tool suggested by the folks at the
WildersSecurity.com forum site.
I do NOT run multiple A/V proggies at the same time. I do NOT even use any
background scanners either, well unless anyone considers the MS KB890830
business a reasonably scanner! LOL!
So far, I have lived 27 months without any concern.......Am I completely
"virus-free?" Perhaps not. But, I have not gotten a single email from
anybody about my "dirty" sends.
I gave up being completely virgin way back in mid-2001. If the bad-guys
want me, they will have me! I have accepted this fact. I have made their
gain as tough as I can ATM. I follow the Collective for suggestions on how
to improve my meager defensives.
HTH,
Duncan
At 09:45 02/23/2009 -0800, you wrote:
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
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