I was under the impression that Defender is not AV so much as anti-spyware? And that Vipre (originally called antivirus + antispyware) offers to take over the antispyware functions from Defender?
________________________________ From: Angus Scott-Fleming <angu...@geoapps.com> To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Wed, April 28, 2010 12:32:22 PM Subject: Re: WTF? Fake AV - resolved. On 28 Apr 2010 at 8:16, Brian Richards wrote: > Hmmm, at home I've been telling Vipre to turn off Windows > Defender - maybe time to re-think that strategy? I don't think you want to run two AV packages simultaneously -- that's just asking for trouble. I'd like to see a command-line deep-scanner from a second AV vendor that you could run nightly as a "Scheduled Task" while running a different AV as your "Active Protection" or "Real-Time Protection". McAfee used to offer a CL scanner, not sure if they still do. ClamAV does. Might have to look into that as an idea.... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~