Kudos to VoG II

[arkusM]

Don't tell anyone, but other than for work, I spend all my time on a Mac...

ditto.

 

[RoryA]

I lie - I spend the rest of the time on an iPhone

 

[arkusM]

I lie - I spend the rest of the time on an iPhone

 

[RoryA]

Which is tricky on a train!!

 

[xyzabc198]

I would never use a machine on the internet without a good firewall, AV and usually at least 2 anti-spyware/malware apps. Call me paranoid...

I recently found something out about this, and you might be putting your PC at risk by doing this!!!

Apparently if you have more than 1 antivirus, spyware, firewall, malware etc. on your PC, then they can contradict each other and seriously harm your pc, it's ok to have 1 anti-spyware, 1 firewall etc. but not more than one of each kind!

 

[Stormseed]

Apparently if you have more than 1 antivirus, spyware, firewall, malware etc. on your PC, then they can contradict each other and seriously harm your pc, it's ok to have 1 anti-spyware, 1 firewall etc. but not more than one of each kind

I do not agree with you.

 

[RoryA]

If you have 2 AV or anti-spyware apps running real-time monitoring simultaneously, then yes they can conflict with each other. I only have one running real-time scans but use both for periodic scans of the whole machine.

 

[xyzabc198]

I do not agree with you.

Fair enough, just stating what one of the best IT technicians in the UK told me :D

 

[Stormseed]

If you have 2 AV or anti-spyware apps running real-time monitoring simultaneously, then yes they can conflict with each other

Or may be not ? I am now running 3 (real time) apps on my PC and I have never experienced a conflict

 

[kgkev]

why do you need 3 real time virus scanners?

what scanners are they?