avast free + windows defender

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi there. Can you please tell me: it it good to keep windows defender turned on with avast free, the orange none? Or Is it better to turn windows denender off?

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turn it off, you don’t need it with Avast, especially the orange one ;D …Avast has strong antispyware abilities, you can test that here:
http://www.spycar.org/Spycar%20EULA.html

3

Please disable the absolute garbage wd and let the onderful avast take care
Thanks

4

I noticed this link does not work with Firefox only with Windows Internet Explorer. Or, am I wrong?

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Working just fine with firefox 3.6.13.

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I keep defender on. It’s free, it’s never done me any harm, and I live in hope that now that microsoft are trying push MSE it may get better (I believe it is the same antispyware as MSE).

Your choice though.

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I just can’t stand its daily updates, which instead of being behind the scenes like other security applications it is incorporated into windows update.

I don’t just want to stop it I want to completely get rid of it, but there is no apparent way to uninstall it from win7, which makes me madder than hell. That annoys me more than updates.

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Which part of Avast duplicates WD ? The behavior shield ?

I don’t think WD is useless. It detected and immobilized the Vundo trojan on my box
over a year ago. It did enough that the system was stable enough for me to clean the
rest using MBAM and Spybot S&D manual scans.

Ever since then, I’ve had some respect for WD. Why just dismiss it?

I must admit though, the update process is annoying, however for the majority,
who fully turn on Automatic Updates, it’s probably fairly transparent.

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What’s this?

http://prohardver.hu/dl/upc/2011-01/259312_spy.png
http://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=http:%2F%2Fwww.spycar.org%2FSpycar%2520EULA.html
http://prohardver.hu/dl/upc/2011-01/144335_12escsaj_linn_over_rules.png

  • Analyses from another forum. The guys showed me them after I linked this SpyCar site there.

There is an infected cascading style sheet, javascript, pictures and so on that site.

After visiting, I ran CCleaner, it deleted 50 MB from the Firefox cache. The usual amount of deleted data is about 1-2 MB.

Now, I’m running MBAM.

PS: Sorry for my really bad English.

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Windows Defender on XP is different from the version on Vista and Windows 7 and I do not have it on my XP Pro System.

It does not hurt my Windows 7 system though plus it provides additional protection for email.

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Turn it off…!!!
asyn

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Yeah… I have my WD disabled too… avast! do his job and I only need to run some anti-malware apps scans once a week and it’s all OK for now.

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Thanks a lot for your great help

:slight_smile:I have disconnected Windows Defender