Install Multiple Anti-virus!

Antivirus - A virus is a small program located in the body of another which, when it is started, loads into memory and executes the instructions its author has programmed.
India
March 21, 2007 12:54pm CST
Is it completely safe to install multiple anti-virus softwares on a computer?
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14 responses
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
21 Mar 07
The running of 2 anti virus prgrans is not as dubious as many people seem to think, but it is a rather pointless practice and will use system resources. You will gain absolutely nothing by operating 2 at the same time, and they are likely to conflict and use too much memory, so it is not recommended.
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• Philippines
22 Mar 07
But is it okay if you have two anti-virus softwares in your system and only run one at a time? I currently have two in my laptop but I only run one of them at a specific time.
21 Mar 07
now why would you go and do that? u should never install more than one. I had major problems with the family PC when my dad decided to install anti-virus over the current one. http://misterbelgic.blogspot.com
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• India
21 Mar 07
Every answer is really scaring me! I will not go for multile softwares. Thanks.
• United States
21 Mar 07
I had a friend who had two anti-virus programs installed on her computer and it majorly slowed her computer down. If you feel confident that your computer will be to handle both anti-virus programs running at the same time than I don't see anything wrong with it. But I would be careful doing so.
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@laarni080 (127)
• Philippines
22 Mar 07
in my own opinion its better you install one anti virus on one PC.
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• Philippines
22 Mar 07
no... i didn't try it.. but i think you only get an error if you instol multiple anit-virus.. just instol one.. just keep up to date..
• Philippines
26 Sep 07
Installing multiple antivirus softwares would cause some conflicts in your computer. It would make your machine hang, thus making it useless to use. One antivirus is already enough to help protect your machine against malicious viruses and worms. Of course, it is important also that your windows firewall is turned ON. This firewall also blocks the entrance of any viruses. Installing antispyware would not cause conflicts with your machine, so I suggest that you install at least one antispyware. When surfing the net, use mozilla or opera browser. These two browsers are much safer when compared to internet explorer. Hope this would help to you in any way. Have a great day and God speed!
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@baba43 (37)
• Pakistan
22 Mar 07
HI! in my point of view this is not a good idea to install multiple anti-virus softwares it may create more error's on your PC !
@Gmens91 (389)
• Philippines
21 Mar 07
No, you cannot. You can, however, install an anti virus and spyware/adware detector on your computer. Of course, you cannot run it at the same time :)
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@anshnav (479)
• India
22 Mar 07
You cannot install multiple anti viruses onto your computer. If you try to then one which is installed already will not allow the other to be installed. Both will clash however its not possible.
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
21 Mar 07
When I bought this computer, it cam installed with 2 different antivirus software on it. I had Mcafee and Norton. Macafee was free for the first three months and I was already subscribed to Norton Antivirus software. Mcafee used to interfere with my Norton because it would always appear and ask me to accept or deny things right after I would accept it through Norton. It got on my nerves and drove me crazy, so I eventually uninstalled Mcafee because it was too much of a problem to have two antiviruses running at the same time on the computer.
• Singapore
21 Mar 07
It is not really a question of "safe" or "not-safe". It is just not possible. Try it if you don't believe - the 2 programs will have a conflict and render your system unstable.
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• India
31 Mar 07
Its safe but some times you can face the problem of slower speed because there are some anti-virus that don't match each other so these can slow down your PC...
• United States
21 Mar 07
NO, WILL HOSE YOUR COMPUTER. You can have multiple anti-spyware and anti-adware. Under no conditions should you install multiple anti-virus programs.
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@orange_h (187)
• India
30 Mar 07
your system will work very slow as both the scan eingines will work and it might even let to ur operation system get corrupt as a clash between both scan eingine; normally many antivirus use caspaskee