Help Please!

hi_shrini · 09-08-2006, 01:15 PM

can we have 2 antivirus softwares in a system???

vaio · 09-08-2006, 01:16 PM

Not advisable.

1 and a firewall is plenty enough.

**Joefireline** · 09-08-2006, 01:33 PM

You should only have 1 anti - virus program, and then a couple of spyware scanners to run once a week or fort-night.

**8210GUY** · 09-08-2006, 05:16 PM

You can have more than 1 A\V installed at the same time, although it is inadvisable to do so, but IF you do you should NEVER run more than 1 A\V at a time or they will be so busy fighting each other they will miss stuff, by far the safest way to go is have just the 1 A\V installed, then a couple of times a month check it out by running some free online scans, no one A\V can catch everything, so by online scanning as well as your installed application your as covered as you can be in such circumstances.

Free online scans are available from the following links.
Trojan Scan
Kaspersky
Panda
Trend

SpySentinel · 09-08-2006, 07:24 PM

1 antivirus is all you need. 1 Firewall and a few antispyware.

09-08-2006, 01:15 PM	#1 (permalink)
hi_shrini Registered User Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 17 OS: WINXP	Help Please! can we have 2 antivirus softwares in a system???

09-08-2006, 01:16 PM	#2 (permalink)
vaio Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: England Posts: 84 OS: XP/Ubuntu	Not advisable. 1 and a firewall is plenty enough. __________________ Crunchers Inc.... Fight disease with your PC......Visit us....join us!!!(Linky in profile) Alzheimers/Aids/Cancer/Parkinsons/Malaria/Internet mapping/Climate Prediction/SETI......lots of projects to choose from. "Make use of idle cpu cycles - The life you save could be your own"

09-08-2006, 05:16 PM	#4 (permalink)
8210GUY TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,558 OS: xp Pro	You can have more than 1 A\V installed at the same time, although it is inadvisable to do so, but IF you do you should NEVER run more than 1 A\V at a time or they will be so busy fighting each other they will miss stuff, by far the safest way to go is have just the 1 A\V installed, then a couple of times a month check it out by running some free online scans, no one A\V can catch everything, so by online scanning as well as your installed application your as covered as you can be in such circumstances. Free online scans are available from the following links. Trojan Scan Kaspersky Panda Trend Last edited by 8210GUY; 09-08-2006 at 05:17 PM.

09-08-2006, 01:33 PM	#3 (permalink)
Joefireline Enthusiastic TSFer~Joseph Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Portishead (Bristol) England Posts: 5,319 OS: Windows 7 64bit(Desktop) / XP Home SP2(laptop) My System	You should only have 1 anti - virus program, and then a couple of spyware scanners to run once a week or fort-night.

09-08-2006, 07:24 PM	#5 (permalink)
SpySentinel Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Location: The United States Posts: 378 OS: Windows XP SP2	1 antivirus is all you need. 1 Firewall and a few antispyware.