That you can keep on your desktop and run whenever you want as NOT to have 2 conflicting running at once? i. e. 1 always running for protection and a different 2nd one to run as an occasional scan from the desktop?
2006-09-15 10:51:36 · 7 answers · asked by bart4play 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
The bitdefender free virus scan and clamwin open source will both work standalone and not conflict with resident software. I have both installed on a pc that is also running resident scanner and have yet to see an issue with either.
2006-09-15 10:56:01 · answer #1 · answered by Interested Dude 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Running more than one AV program can damage your computer. They also conflict with each other and do not provide any protection.
It is supposed to run in the background to provide active protection. If you desire not to have it running in the background then turn it off. Of course, you will not have any active protection, but you can scan with it when you want.
http://www.internetinspiration.co.uk/computer_privacy_and_security.htm
2006-09-15 18:03:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try Antivir, Bit Defender or Clamwin. All are freewares and having very good detection rates. They are all stan alone AV programes which you can use with your main AV programe. There will be no conflicts. Be sure to turn off resident protection on Antivir while installing.
2006-09-16 08:35:20 · answer #3 · answered by tullu 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The answer is no, not possible.
Reason:
You can only have one anti virus installed at once. Reason is when you install it there is one small sectionon your hard drive called the boot sector. It writes a small command there to start the AV at the right time. All AV programs write it in the same spot, thus it si not possible to have two different pieces of information taking up the same sector.
2006-09-15 18:01:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes, BitDefender 8 is an on-demand only scanner that plays well with most resident A-Vs. it has much better detection rates then the other free A-Vs such as AVG and Avast.
I have used Avast as my resident A-V and BitDefender 8 for years with zero problems.
Free at:
http://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-14-en--BitDefender-8-Free-Edition.html
Good luck.
2006-09-15 18:03:15 · answer #5 · answered by jibberjabar 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just try Avast. Free and good.
2006-09-15 17:53:51 · answer #6 · answered by opitmdotcom 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no you can only have one antivirus
2006-09-15 17:53:35 · answer #7 · answered by binsch02 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋