DakotaRider
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Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.
I already have Trend Micro virus protection but am wondering if the system will conflict having more then one program gaurding against viruses.
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pulsar
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You can have as many antivirus programs as you want. However, you should have only one of them do real-time scanning. With two running, each could think the other is a virus.
You could use any of them to do full scans.
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Any virus program is only as good as it's last update. Keep any or all your programs updated for best results.
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downtheroad
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One anti-virus at a time or they will conflict.
As many 'spyware' programs as you want will be fine.
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Moose60
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downtheroad wrote:One anti-virus at a time or they will conflict.
As many 'spyware' programs as you want will be fine.
Agreed. Antivirus programs didn't go to kindergarten and don't play well together.
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I un-installed AVG (used for many years now) and installed Microsoft Security Essentials (just because it was there and at the time was just trying to kill a few hours). I could always un-install and go back to AVG anytime.
Well, it seems to work well and is not resource intensive after 5 days and counting.
Running two different virus protection systems at one time is like running simultaneous races in different directions.
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DakotaRider
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Question answered.....Thanks all.
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