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From experience, having more than one firewall or AV can be a nightmare as they are prone to arguing like women over what to allow, what not to allow etc.

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Yes, there is an issue with running adaware with spybot, afaikVery PC of you Russ :D

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Well, a bad example then, but thats why i asked for you to point out my errors... ;)

:notopic: What is the probem with them BTW - i thought they were fine together?

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If you have ad-aware (or maybe spy-bot) set to search inside compressed files then it finds the others definitions and classes them as "bad" and ends up corrupting its opponent I believe. I think thats what that splash screen says.

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If you run more than one antivirus, ONLY ONE should be providing resident protection (on access).
It may also be faster if you deactivate the on-access protection before scanning with other programs.

There used to be major issues in finding each others definitions, but current AV programs generally use database formats that resist that problem.

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I dunno m8....ask spybot....they are the ones that give (or used to give) a warning about running spybot with adaware installed :shrug:

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The warning was only that adaware might spot something in the spybot quarentine(sp?) and delete it.

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RIGHT, I wiped AVG to try this avast and i noticed a "small print" thingus that said you must reregister every two weeks to continue getting updates???? :erm:

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Nothing serious, funny that Adaware and Pest Patrol don't give any warnings about Spybot or each other.