Can we use two anti virus soft wares on a single system at the same time.does this causes any problem?

Question

computer related, about anti virus softwares

Answer 1

"Microsoft recommends that you have only one anti-virus program installed on your computer."

http://support.microsoft.com/default.asp...

It is strongly recommended that you run only one antivirus program at a time. Having more than one antivirus program active in memory uses additional resources and can result in program conflicts and false virus alerts. Your best defense against computer viruses and malicious programs is to keep your virus definitions up to date.

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav...

Answer 2

Only use one anti-virus product. Running more than one can cause conflicts thus rendering each ineffective. Below are links to Norton and SmartComputing outlining problems when having more than one active AV product:

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav...

http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/...

Answer 3

the most common thing while running 2 antiviruses at same system;

1.both may conflict each other

2.one will try to disable other

3.both antivirus will try to takeover firewall..(***conditions apply***)

the main thing ur pc will become slower than before and more memory is used ..........

Answer 4

yes, you can use two anti virus softwares at the same time. the problems it will cause are that it will run slower than if you had a virus.

Answer 5

Yup you can..but it will slow your computer..I prefer you use McAfee and keep it updated..thats more than enough..

Answer 6

You can provided the anti virus softwares object to it... I had tried installing avg and norton but norton didn't allow it... If you do install your system will be better protected but it will use a lot of system resources making it slow...

Answer 7

yes u can use it but it may slow down ur computer

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Answer 8

No use only one anti virus software.

if there r two people protecting one person.

think if they both fight with each other.

Then who will save that person.

Same is here.

If u will use two anti virus software.

They both will try to search for virus.

And each other will say that your other anti virus software is corrupt.

Only install one anti visrus software.

That's all.

Answer 9

yes defenitly it will create more problems

antivirus work in the concet of chatching interepts

if u install two antivirus both will try to get the same interepts at the same time and which leads to system hang... and some more serious pbm.....

Answer 10

Two antiviruses don't create any problem. However, your system would be slowed down to a significant extent.

Answer 11

You can, but sometimes they will pick each other up, one anti-virus is enough as long as its decent, and you spend time updating it every day.

One useful thing to have is more than one firewall, or an anti-virus and an anti-spyware program.

Answer 12

The safe way is to run one AV, if you think that AV is missing viruses then the safe thing to do is a free online scan with bitdefender or trend housecall.

Answer 13

Anti-virus software is fine to run 2 or more on the same computer. It is NOT good to run 2 or more software firewalls though.

Answer 14

They will pick each other up scanning through the files and slow down your computer enormously scanning each other.