Currently I've installed zonealarm firewall, avg, avast, and spyware doctor on my notebook. The question i have is whether having all of them installed interfere with each other making things worse OR will it add protection to my computer as i thought?
Also after i updated to the new version of zonealarm, i having not gotten a single intrustion block. Normally i would be bombarded with intrusion blocks, so is there something wrong or is the new update that gd?
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I have all of what you have and even more. I run zonealarm and avast simultaneously without any problems. The rest, I just do a manual scan individually at the end of the week instead of having them run all at once. Hasn't caused any problems here.
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Just make sure they aren't set to scan automatically together. Multiple AV scanners together can cause major performance problems, as well as possibly crashing or malfunctioning.
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You shouldn't be running the real-time protection of both AVG and Avast at once. Having one firewall, anti-spyware, and antivirus running simultaneously is fine, but you shouldn't have 2 of anything running at the same time.
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av software and firewalls aren't like web browsers and media players. you should only run one per computer. pick an avg, pick a firewall, and stick to them. running multiples is a good way to a.) crash your computer, and b.) completely block your internet connection.
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thanks for all the replies...but could anyone answer my question about not getting a single intrusion in Zonealarm?
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if it's like the beta, it's because you selected a setting telling zonealarm to automatically manage that stuff during setup.
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) and I never get any popups telling me "We were so great, we caught a virus and blocked us! Applause please!"
. I wouldn't worry about it.
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It's overkill if you have lots of antivirus/firewalls running. Might actually do more harm due to potential conflicts. Wouldn't it be funny if each programs detects the others as viruses!
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I thought running a new AV program required you to disable the other one, doesn't it? That's why I never "try out" Trend Micro, because I'd have to disable Norton. -
Unless you're running Norton 2007, Sam, giving Trend Micro a "try out" is probably an excellent idea. If yours is an earlier version of Norton, I think you'll find Trend Micro to be a great improvement.
Each probably protects computers well enough, but TM is not as great a system hog as the old Norton program, IMHO. -
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Too many just leads to a major slowdown on your computer, and in the end, just more stress for the CPU. -
jesus what are you so afraid of?
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i'm the visceral opposite of you - i have Vista's default firewall up (alongside my router's firewall), windows defender and zero anti-virus programs. i toyed with the idea of installing AOL's Active Virus Shield (a free full version of Kaspersky), but that seems increasingly unlikely; in my 10+ years using computers, i can count the amount of times real-time scanning has flagged a virus in one hand.
Will having too many antivirus programs be bad?
Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by evilmonk, Jul 13, 2007.