Not antiVIRUS, antispyware/malware. Two completely different things. And not free -- you get exactly what you pay for with a free AV or AS/M program. As much as it killed me to do, I actually bought my F-Secure and renew it every year, and I bought SpyHunter as well. My two AS/M progs are the one that comes with the F-Secure Security Suite, and SpyHunter.
No, you don't want to run two different AV programs, because yeah, they don't play well together. This is mostly because they both like to TSR themselves, and they don't like someone else running in their space.
But two spyware scanners work fine, as long as you only have ONE of them TSR'ing. You let one of them sit around on the box and scan all the incoming traffic and email, run a formal scan with it whenever you like, as often as you like, then you nuke that one and fire up the other one, and run a formal scan with it.
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Date: 2010-03-24 10:43 pm (UTC)No, you don't want to run two different AV programs, because yeah, they don't play well together. This is mostly because they both like to TSR themselves, and they don't like someone else running in their space.
But two spyware scanners work fine, as long as you only have ONE of them TSR'ing. You let one of them sit around on the box and scan all the incoming traffic and email, run a formal scan with it whenever you like, as often as you like, then you nuke that one and fire up the other one, and run a formal scan with it.