antispyware

[Guest Gui..]

my windows vista came with windows defender (i think all come)

but i also installed ad-aware 2007 which is an antispyware program too.Is

there any problem to have 2 antispywares on my pc?

[Guest John Barnett MVP]

No. Many people have two or three anti spyware applications on their PC with

two of the most popular being Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy.

 

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"Gui.." <Gui@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:4850534C-B7F3-4E65-9DFF-C792C5EA575A@microsoft.com...<span style="color:blue">

> my windows vista came with windows defender (i think all come)

> but i also installed ad-aware 2007 which is an antispyware program too.Is

> there any problem to have 2 antispywares on my pc? </span>

[Guest DL]

Excepting Adaware apparently conflicts with certain AV applications,

F-Secure being one.

And you dont mention any AV application

 

"Gui.." <Gui@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:4850534C-B7F3-4E65-9DFF-C792C5EA575A@microsoft.com...<span style="color:blue">

> my windows vista came with windows defender (i think all come)

> but i also installed ad-aware 2007 which is an antispyware program too.Is

> there any problem to have 2 antispywares on my pc? </span>

[Guest Ken Blake, MVP]

On Tue, 6 May 2008 11:20:03 -0700, Gui..

<Gui@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

<span style="color:blue">

> my windows vista came with windows defender (i think all come)

> but i also installed ad-aware 2007 which is an antispyware program too.Is

> there any problem to have 2 antispywares on my pc?</span>

 

 

No, and having two or more is good to do.

 

Just don't run simultaneous scans on them.

 

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[Guest Kayman]

On Tue, 6 May 2008 11:20:03 -0700, Gui.. wrote:

<span style="color:blue">

> my windows vista came with windows defender (i think all come)

> but i also installed ad-aware 2007 which is an antispyware program too.Is

> there any problem to have 2 antispywares on my pc?</span>

 

Ensure that the other A-S apps are not running real-time.

[Guest Michael J Lewin]

ALL MOST all Malware/Antivirus/ Antispyware programs have a problem when

there both enabled at the same time. Even if the are not they will find the

Quarantine file of the other program and mark it as a spy ware, this can be

by pass by adding the other anti spyware program in to ignore the files in

that directory, this is what i did and haven't had any problems since. But

when it comes to Antivirus programs its not nearly so simple so I suggests

to use just one and delete the other. Good luck. (MIKE)