Will using two anti virus program at the same time give better protection?

Question

Will using two anti virus program at the same time give better protection?

Answer 1

NO - Less.

Answer 2

No they would interfere with each other and possibly offer worse protection then one on its own.

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Answer 3

No, they will conflict, slow your computer to a crawl.

You can however employ anti-virus solutions that use multiple engines or scanners. GFI for example employs 5 seperate scanners when protecting Exhange Mailboxes.

Answer 4

will using two anti virus program at the same time give better protection?

NO! Having more then one Anti-Virus program installed on your computer can cause major program conflict such as freezing up your computer, greatly slowing it down, cause false positive when scanning for Viruses or just causing all kinds of strange behavior.

Having more then one Anti-Virus program installed on your computer actually makes your computer less safe because when you have two Anti-Virus programs running in real time on your computer these two Anti-Virus programs start see each other as a threat and begin  monitoring each others behavior   while not fully monitoring for real malicious threats.

Answer 5

they will interuppet each other stick 2 1 avg is the best

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Answer 6

First of all your computer will not allow you to install two anti virus programs at a time. while you try to install the second anti virus, the firewall in your computer will prompt you to uninstall the first anti virus for installing the new one.

Answer 7

Nope, it will cause problems.

Answer 8

To quote word to word from: http://www.claymania.com/virus-specific....

""Can I run two virus scanners at the same time?"

There are two types of anti-virus programs. Those that you invoke explicitly (called on-demand scanners) and those that are always active in the background (called on-access scanners).

You should never let two on-access scanners monitor your system at the same time. Instead of providing better protection, the combination of two or more such scanners will likely cause your system to behave in a weird manner and possibly crash because the scanners will interfere with each other.

Also, a single background scanner will use some of the resources of your computer; the supplementary protection offered by the second scanner is not worth the additional resources it consumes (and the additional trouble mentioned above).

However, you can install as many on-demand scanners as you wish. Because they do not run simultaneously, they won't disturb each other, and two scanners detect more viruses than one. Note that you should switch off your on-access scanner before running an on-demand scanner.

On-Access Scanners (sometimes called Memory Resident Scanners), as their name implies, run in the background all the time the PC is switched on and running. Usually you will see a little icon in the taskbar that indicates it's there. The main function of an on-access scanner is to monitor all activity on your machine, like files being read, processor streams, Internet downloads, receiving, sending and reading email and so on.

Basically they watch what's going on, and if they see something that they think is a virus, they tell you about it.

If you work in a reasonably large company, you may find that it is corporate policy to have a virus scanner running at all times on your workstation. That will be an on access scanner. They need updating just like all scanners, though they can usually be configured to make this automatic if you have a network or Internet connection. "

Answer 9

No...a lot of the time each program will cause the other one to error, and give you less protection.