Avast is not good in detecting Trojans?

[system]

@Turkey post:20

@AvastForever post:19

@Tech post:6

@AvastForever post:5

So i just disable the resident scanner of AVG and i be fine?

No, NOT INSTALL which is different than disable.
After, you can set both AVG services to manual run (but you can let them to automatic).

How can use Install either AVG or Anti-Vir without the Resident Scanners?

Been a while since I had AVG, but for Anti Vir, when downloading Anti Vir, they’ll ask you if you want to enable Active Guard, make sure you say no or uncheck the Active Guard.

ok but lets say i do that i dont have to worry that i have 2 antivirus on my computer?

[system]

If you only have one resident provider running, you can have another antivirus scanner such as Anti Vir.

[lakrsrool]

Just a suggestion…

How about Clamwin as a backup scanner. It doesn’t even offer resident protection anyway. Also it incorporates into Windows OS so that you can right click on files to scan individually just like Avast (and many other AV programs of course).

I have read that Clamwin is renown for updating the Virus signature DB very quickly and will update the Database (DB) as soon as a new virus signature is known. I have also read that a lot of email server providers are now using the Clamwin Virus DB for their AV protection.

I have been thinking of adding this to my system. I was wondering if there could be a conflict if both Avast and Clamwin are set to automatic updates for the AV DB?

[Lisandro]

@lakrsrool post:23

I have been thinking of adding this to my system. I was wondering if there could be a conflict if both Avast and Clamwin are set to automatic updates for the AV DB?

There is not such conflict. avast! and ClamWin can live together (if ClamWin is not set to scan emails, etc., anything, in background).
The automated update won’t conflict for sure.

[system]

@Tech post:9

@Eddy post:8

Having 3 av’s on 1 system is a overkill.

Why? You’ll call me crazy as I have 6 backup scanners…

What 6 backup scanners you use?

[Lisandro]

@AvastForever post:25

What 6 backup scanners you use?

1. AVG
2. AntiVir
3. ClamWin
4. BitDefender
5. F-Prot DOS
6. NAV (old standalone on-demand scanner)

[system]

Seems over-redundant to have so many AV programs installed on a machine. Wouldn’t one be enough and use the popular online scanners that are available on the internet as so-called “back-up” scanners?

[Lisandro]

@Culpeper post:27

Seems over-redundant to have so many AV programs installed on a machine. Wouldn’t one be enough and use the popular online scanners that are available on the internet as so-called “back-up” scanners?

I have listen this a lot of times…
Testing software, not always on-line, off-line cleanning, compare features and detection, paranoid… a lot of reasons to keep my behavior.

[system]

Well Technical, I don’t include you in this category. You go above and beyond the call of duty to keep people fully informed on security issues and someone like yourself would need to install and test various platforms to stay informed. I’m only referring to the average lay users.

[Lisandro]

@Culpeper post:29

Well Technical, I don’t include you in this category. You go above and beyond the call of duty to keep people fully informed on security issues and someone like yourself would need to install and test various platforms to stay informed. I’m only referring to the average lay users.

Thanks Culpeper. Sorry if I misunderstood your first post.
I do agree that average users shouldn’t ever think on having that in the same computer.
By the way, wasn’t you using NOD32? :

[system]

@Tech post:30

@Culpeper post:29

Well Technical, I don’t include you in this category. You go above and beyond the call of duty to keep people fully informed on security issues and someone like yourself would need to install and test various platforms to stay informed. I’m only referring to the average lay users.

Thanks Culpeper. Sorry if I misunderstood your first post.
I do agree that average users shouldn’t ever think on having that in the same computer.
By the way, wasn’t you using NOD32? :

No, I’m in the lonely world of beta testing for Computer Associates. Actually, I’m not doing it anymore but I still have about 18 months of updates and signature file downloads I can use. That is on my XP machine. Computer Associates is going through some type of weird transition what with using Zone Alarm, Pest Control and such not to mention they bought out Tiny Firewall. The other machine has Suse Linux and there isn’t much to worry about there as far as AV, spyware, and such. Just Linux based iptables firewall and simple AV scanner is about all one needs for security. Actually, Linux is very secure out of the box. The bad guys prefer easier targets like Windows.

[system]

@Tech post:26

@AvastForever post:25

What 6 backup scanners you use?

1. AVG
2. AntiVir
3. ClamWin
4. BitDefender
5. F-Prot DOS
6. NAV (old standalone on-demand scanner)

So it will be aright for me to have the first 5 on my computer?

[system]

I think if you install all those av programs on your machine you are going to be greatly disappointed with the outcome. Unless you are above novice level on windows OS. I may have missed something here but is there a reason why you want so many different scanners on one machine?

[system]

@AvastForever post:32

@Tech post:26

@AvastForever post:25

What 6 backup scanners you use?

1. AVG
2. AntiVir
3. ClamWin
4. BitDefender
5. F-Prot DOS
6. NAV (old standalone on-demand scanner)

So it will be aright for me to have the first 5 on my computer?

Its best for you just have just one resident Anti virus and one back up scanner cause having a whole lot of yum wouldn’t be good on the computer. This is Tech’s way of keeping safe from Viruses, but not everyone can have a 6 different scanners and still have a peaceful computer.

[system]

@Culpeper post:33

I think if you install all those av programs on your machine you are going to be greatly disappointed with the outcome. Unless you are above novice level on windows OS. I may have missed something here but is there a reason why you want so many different scanners on one machine?

I heard that not one Antivirus catch everything. Right now i only Running Avast with resident scanner and AntiVir without the resident scanner. And a Anti-Torjan called Ewido and only for a on-demand scanner.

[system]

With those three on your PC, you should be fine. 8)

[system]

@Turkey post:36

With those three on your PC, you should be fine. 8)

Thanks, do you know which one is better to have as a backup, AVG or AntiVir? I like AntiVir but i want to know if AVG is better.

[system]

Just stick with Anti Vir and you should be fine. Haven’t been with AVG for a while now, but Anti Vir is good enough.

[Lisandro]

@Turkey post:34

This is Tech’s way of keeping safe from Viruses, but not everyone can have a 6 different scanners and still have a peaceful computer.

Sure. But I don’t keep me safe with them. My protection is avast, the only resident.
The others are for test purposes, backup scanner, learning, features comparison to make suggestions to avast!, etc.
For sure, don’t have all of them for security reasons.

As backup scanner, an order for me would be:

1. ClamWin
2. AntiVir
3. BitDefender
4. AVG
5. F-Prot DOS

Taking in account the hability of update and the detection (at least for me).

[system]

@Tech post:39

@Turkey post:34

This is Tech’s way of keeping safe from Viruses, but not everyone can have a 6 different scanners and still have a peaceful computer.

Sure. But I don’t keep me safe with them. My protection is avast, the only resident.
The others are for test purposes, backup scanner, learning, features comparison to make suggestions to avast!, etc.
For sure, don’t have all of them for security reasons.

As backup scanner, an order for me would be:

1. ClamWin
2. AntiVir
3. BitDefender
4. AVG
5. F-Prot DOS

Taking in account the hability of update and the detection (at least for me).

How about having F-Prot Dos on my system? I only have AntiVir as a backup, Ewido just detects Trojans and stuff. And whats more effective to have Web Shield in Normal or High? and what happends if i dont use intelligent stream scanning of the Web shield?