I have Norton already installed, but I like some features of windows one care. Not only do I have several months remaining on my Norton account, but I'm apprehensive about putting something new on and the possibility that I may not like it after all and would want my Norton back. Therefore, I need to know, if I can keep my Norton installed and proceed to install One care, and in the end have the virus protection of BOTH softwares at the same time. Is it possible? Will they conflict with one another? (Im asking because I know nothing about computers software etc..) Or will they actually work simultaneous, giving me a safer internet experience x 2?
2007-06-11 22:55:47 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Hell -Freakin'- No!
2007-06-12 03:47:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is possible but not recommend.
The reason is that antivirus software works in 2 ways.
1. It will find viruses.
2. It will look for virus behaviour.
For example, a virus will try and change a file, then the antivirus software will see this and change it back. Then the second antivirus software will see the first antivirus software doing this, think the antivirus software is a virus and change it back. Which will make a the first antivirus software angry. Imagine a very messy divorce happenning inside your computer and you will understand the source of conflict.
As a computer professional, I often use more than one antivirus software program to catch and destroy viruses. This is because, sometimes a virus gets out, and the software we are using on the computers can't deal with it, or stops it, but doesn't delete it. So we run a second program, to scan for the viruses.
Though this can also create problems. Many antivirus progroms don't delete viruses, they simply move them to a safe location. Which means that you the other antivirus software will find these viruses again. If you have two programs, both scanning the computer, then you may end up with viruses simply being moved around admist endless warnings.
In summary, antivirus software is not designed to work with other antivirus packages, and it is better to use only one at a time, but you might consider using the scan feature of one, while running another as the real-time virus detection software.
2007-06-11 23:10:48 · answer #2 · answered by flingebunt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually quite often they will conflict. And in particular they may try and treat each other as viruses as the behaviour of anti-virus software is often similar to some of the viruses that they look for.
Personally I recommend not doing it.
If you are worried about the change over - set a windows roll back point with Norton installed. Uninstall and install the other - if you don't like the performance - roll back.
2007-06-11 23:04:01 · answer #3 · answered by nkellingley@btinternet.com 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possible YES, Adviseable NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
As said more than 1 will at best cause minor conflicts, false alarms, and at worst could cause significant problems with files being read by 2 apps and could cause system corruption.
Set a recovery point, or ig you have access to a utility like Norton Ghost, image the drive to a backuparea before you uninstall 1 to install the other.
peronsally my preference on AV is avast, as it's reliable, free and easy to maintain.
www.avast.com
2007-06-11 23:12:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its not a problem having 2 Anit-virus in a same computer but it will unnessarily slow ur computer , and make it hang often , so prefer which is the best and install just 1 .
2007-06-11 23:05:06 · answer #5 · answered by Rocky 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not recommended, as apart from hogging your memory, they will conflict with each other and give you false `positive' alarms
2007-06-11 23:04:19 · answer #6 · answered by guruji9x 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not recommended
cause crashes
2007-06-11 23:00:35 · answer #7 · answered by fun 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋