having more than one antivirus programmes is better?
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A trojan horse is a program that you unexpectedly install, and which somehow compromises your computer -- usually, by allowing other people to use the files on your computer.\n\nYou get a trojan horse by doing dumb things, such as loading so-called "free" software from the internet, opening e-mail attachments, etc.\n\nIn theory, having two antivirus programs is better than having one. In practice, two antivirus programs running at the same time are going to cause conflicts and crashes left and right. Simply invest in a well-supported antivius program, such as Norton, keep your virus definitions up to date and stop installing software from untrustworty sites / opening e-mail attachments that you aren't sure are safe, and generally speaking, you will be safe.
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Dont install 2 firewalls or antiviruses at the same time as this causes collisions between them and therefore causes your system to crash. Only have 1 antivirus , 1 firewall and 1 antispy . Dont use Norton , use AVG . AVG is free and does a much better job then norton .
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Neither program has a very high virus detection rate. Expect them to not detect about 10% of all viruses. Some paid solutions such as Kaspersky miss less than one half of one percent.\n\nThat being said I use Avast (you can't beat the price). And it uses about 15 to 18 mb on my comp.
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For antivirus you can use AntiVir (free, free-av.com). I use Norton on my main computer, but it isn’t free. Other free options include AVG and Avast. You should also occasionally scan your computer with Trend Micro HouseCall (free online virus scanner, housecall.trendmicro.com), just to be safe. Don’t install more than one antivirus program on your computer; however you can use an online virus scanner while an antivirus program is installed on your computer.\n\nUse Ad-Aware (free, lavasoft.com) for antispyware. It will protect you from spyware and adware.\n\nUse ZoneAlarm (free, zonelabs.com) for a firewall.\n\nAlso, use Mozilla Firefox (free, mozilla.com) as your web browser. It is not only more secure than Internet Explorer, but much faster, easier to use, more customizable… the list goes on.
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You can only use one antivirus program or you will have conflict with your system..  You don't say what antivirus program you have, but it is obvious it is not working for you.  So remove it an install Avast.\n\nIn my spare time I test on my backup computer all antispyware/antivirus programs to see if the perform as claimed And especially to see which one have embedded trojans/adware either in their program or in the wizard installer used to guide you through the installation. \n\nWhat is rate as 1-2-3-4-5 is not always the best. Especially when you can find free programs that are light years ahead in technology over the purchased.\n\nIn my computer I use the following free programs.\n\nFor antivirus you can only use one or you will have serious conflict with your system. You can use three or four antispyware without any conflict.\n\nAvast in my opinion is the very best. Have you Avast for nine plus years and never had one virus. They are out of Prague.\n\nhttp://www.avast.com This program is free and has one of the very best background scanner that will catch any virus in real time and destroyed the virus before it can enter you system. \nUpdates auto., two or three times per day. They will ask you for your email address so they can send you a free key that is good for one year. After one year you only have to request a new key.\n\nClinical Psychiatrist, France
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First of all there is no use of having 3 antivirus softwares on a single computer. all of them take load of system and makes the computer work slow than ever.\n\nso first chose the best antivirus you have and uninstall rest of two. then Left-Click on the Run and type msconfig\n\nthis will lauch a utility "System Configuration Utility".\nOn the General Page that is the first one. Uncheck the Load Startup Items.\n\nBy doing this no program will load in startup even Msn Messenger you have to open it by your self.\n\nOr go to the startup tab/page and choose the program you dont want to load in the startup and uncheck it. Since it is hard to know which program is good or bad for system. It is better you Uncheck the Load Startup Items on the first Page.\n\nFollow the above and Enjoy the Internet.\n\nSee u later\n\nFazeel Amjad
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Hi there,\n\nThere really is no need for another layer of protection as Prevx1 is already protecting you from not only viruses, but also spyware, adware, trojans, rootkits, hackers and more.\n\nIt is a little known fact that Prevx1 also currently has the strongest protection and removal capabilities of any security suite available today, so I would imagine having Prevx1 and McAfee as your backup will be more than sufficient.\n\nThere are a lot of people on here who recommend question askers to load up there systems with 3, 4, 5, or even more security programs which really aren't necessarry.  These are most likely people who have AVG, Spybot and Ad-aware installed which are simply not as good programs as they were a couple of years ago (these three used in conjunction are only protecting users from 60% of threats).  This is why people then need another couple of programs on top of these, when in reality they should be dropped as they are sub-standard programs.\n\nHope this helps.
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"symantec anti virus software, dell anti-virus" See, that's where you went wrong. Having more than one anti-virus program on your computer will serously mess it up. You should also try to increase your RAM and delete unwanted startup programs, or just take them off of the list. Unless you have a powerful processer (Intel Pentium 4 and higher) Don't try to run more than 1 program at a time, unless you have to. Also, you might want to look into a new VGA or video card if you want to speed up visual performance.\n\nHope this helps!\n-crad010
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do you have all your windows security updates?\n if not,you should get those and only run ONE anti virus program..running two they will conflict with each other,,not to mention slowing your machine down lots
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In my spare time I test on my backup computer all antispyware/antivirus programs to see if the perform as claimed And especially to see which one have embedded trojans/adware either in their program or in the wizard installer used to guide you through the installation. \n\nWhat is rate as 1-2-3-4-5 is not always the best. Especially when you can find free programs that are light years ahead in technology over the purchased.\n\nIn my computer I use the following free programs.\n\nFor antivirus you can only use one or you will have serious conflict with your system. You can use three or four antispyware without any conflict.\n\nAvast in my opinion is the very best. Have you Avast for nine plus years and never had one virus. They are out of Prague.\n\nhttp://www.avast.com This program is free and has one of the very best background scanner that will catch any virus in real time and destroyed the virus before it can enter you system. \nUpdates auto., two or three times per day. They will ask you for your email address so they can send you a free key that is good for one year. After one year you only have to request a new key.\n\nAntispyware\n\nhttp://www.ewido.net This company was out of Germany and has since been purchased by AVG. Now the name is AVG antispyware. Still the same program with excellent technolgoy. When you download the program it will come with all functions an if you don't purchase in thirty days they will just remove the background scanner and the auto updates. You will update on a manual basis. Scans all 195,000 objects in my system.\n\nhttp://www.emsisoft.com This company is out of Austria. Almost the same as the new AVG. A2Squared free version download. They will ask you for you email address so they can send you a key that is good for life. You will get any new free version with the same key. Plus has rootkit protection and rogue dialer protection. (I have ADSL, but use for the added protection).\n\nFirewall\n\nhttp://www.zonealarm.com Excellent firewall free, if you download their free for home use version. You will get daily updates if any are due, plus if they come out with a new free version they will notify you via automatic and you just say yes, download the new version. The new version will remove the old version. Always best to do is clean install, instead of allowing the new version to copy the files of what you allowed or deny. You will just have to allow, or deny incoming/outgoing traffice again. If you check off remember on Zone Alarm, they will not ask you again if you want to allow or deny the same program. \n\nFor "zero day attacks", Attacks that hit before any security company has knowledge of the attack. I use a free software that is is excellent state of the art technology to identify any program that the behaivor is strange, like trying to download hidden files, etc. etc. Will get a pop up with indepth details, so you can decide for yourself if you want to allow or deny. Plus will block all malware. http://www.cyberhawk.com\n\nIf you want to spend money you can use what I use in my backup pc. http://www.filseclab.com Twister Trojan Antivirus. This program is used by the Government of China and you only pay a one time fee of $29.99 for live. Will include all new versions, auto, updates, an excellent support. Has a real great background scanner that really works, plus many other features that operate from the icon in the tray. Well worth the one time fee. Most other companies charge you an annual fee. China does not believe in the annual fee. \n\nClinical Psychiatrist, France\n\nExcuse my english\n\nClinical Psychiatrist. France.
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get spybot, not all spyware programmes get all the spyware, it would be a good idea if u had 2 anti-spyware programmes
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It's not advisable to run 2 anti-virus's on the same computer. You're asking for problems right away when you do that. Sound slike your McAfee firewall settings are to high since the site you are trying to get to sounds like a banking site right? In McAfee there's a Privacy Service program that goes along with it depending upon the version. Try disabling the privacy service along with lowering your firewall settings.\nFrom BeachBum-Desktop Support Technician
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use an Anti-virus program
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AVG gets great reviews. You should never use two anti-virus programs at the same time. \n\nThink of it like having two goalies trying to protect a single soccer net -- they are going to get in each others way and some balls will get through. ;o)
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AVG works best in tandem with programs like Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad-Aware, and one other free antivirus of your choice (like say Mcafee Stinger).\nTrusting your system to only one antivirus or trojan/spyware detector is just suicidal. No ONE program will detect everything.\nPS - Norton is the best....at slowing your system down, hogging system resources...screwing up if you try to uninstall it...taking forever to do full system scans...yup...Norton is the best at SUCKING LARGE.
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Ellenrose, like hell it is - two AV's conflict to the point where you end up will less coverage that from one good AV application.\n\nGood policy:\n1 decent AV (SYmantec Corporate (available from their site), or AVG free - avoid Kapersky like the plague\n1 or 2 Decent anti-malware applications - Ewido, AdAware\n\nAlso look at using Opera or Firefox as the primary browser, as the this also prevents a lot even getting in the door
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The problem with most anti-virus programs is the user. If you down load a virus most of the time it's because you told Norton's, Mcafee, whoever, to except the program. I good example is most file sharing programs. You tell Norton's to let the program down load and bang, a virus pops up. Some say 90% of the virus come that way even if you have Norton's, or mcafee, or who ever. the other 9% is email, and 1% is keeping your system on line all the time. (the more time you give a hacker, the more likely he has you). I can not say one is better then the other because you can run one and find nothing and run the other and find a 100 things on your system. Then next week its the other way around. I use PC-cillin, as the main Anti-virus with mcafee and Norton web find as back ups. Same is true with any other helper program. (spy-ware removers, registry booster,Etc) You have to have more then one to stay safe. You do not run them all at the same time, but use one and use web site scanning to back up with the rest.   Sorry so long.