re: Virus Programs
Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 11:22 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by MartinM
(7545 messages posted)
The big problem with running two real-time AV scanners is that
they will (or at least they should) try and action the same file at the same time.
This inevitably causes mayhem - one scanner may have locked the file when the other
is trying to read, move or delete it; or one scanner will have deleted it by the
time the other tries to do so - and can no longer find it. Etc.
These are rare occurrences - but when you've an infection on its way in the last
thing you want is locked-up AV scanners !
For fun (I've a sad sense of humour) I once installed both McAfee and Norton on
an XP PC. Having got around the issue that each wanted the other off before installing,
the PC was for practical purposes dead - closer examination showed 100% CPU usage
between the two AVs - heaven knows what loop they were in !
It is possible that running two malware scans (eg Malwarebytes and SuperAntispyware)
simultaneously could cause similar issues, but the chance of them lighting on the
same file at the same instant is I guess pretty small. Nevertheless I only run one
such scan at a time.
- Written in response to:
- re: Virus Programs (C K: Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 9:30 am)
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