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Jon M · 07-07-2005, 08:39

The main point about both Anti-Spyware and Anti-Virus tools is that no one piece of software will be 100% effective.
Running two Anti-Spyware tools is realistic and recommended, I use M$-Anti-Spy as my resident active agent, but I regularly do a full scan with Ad-aware and Spybot.
Doing the same with Anti-Virus software is a bit more of a challenge, I don't know of any that will run active scanning side by side, I've not tried, but I doubt that it would work considering each one will try to get exclusive access to every active process.

You can however temporarily disable your active scanner and run as many different full system scans as you like. (not at the same time obviously)

On top of that, multiple Anti-Virus installs would be a huge hit on system performance, disregarding the extreme unlikeliness of them functioning happily together.

07-07-2005, 08:39	#33
Jon M Inactive Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: East Midlands Age: 48 Services: Rural BB - Radio Link via Virgin Fibre Posts: 2,947	Re: Microsoft Antispyware / Norton IS --- PAHH !!! The main point about both Anti-Spyware and Anti-Virus tools is that no one piece of software will be 100% effective. Running two Anti-Spyware tools is realistic and recommended, I use M$-Anti-Spy as my resident active agent, but I regularly do a full scan with Ad-aware and Spybot. Doing the same with Anti-Virus software is a bit more of a challenge, I don't know of any that will run active scanning side by side, I've not tried, but I doubt that it would work considering each one will try to get exclusive access to every active process. You can however temporarily disable your active scanner and run as many different full system scans as you like. (not at the same time obviously) On top of that, multiple Anti-Virus installs would be a huge hit on system performance, disregarding the extreme unlikeliness of them functioning happily together.