I use Avast! Professional Edition and I was wondering if I could have Ad-AwareAE as my FOURTH backup scanner. Is it possible that I can combine those antivirusesspywares?:
Spybot Search And Destroy
Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware Free Edition
SuperAntiSpyware Free Edition
Avast! Professional Edition
and add Ad-AwareAE just to be on the safe side ;D
Don’t see why not. Try it.
AdAware would have to have improved its AE heaps over the last offering for me to ever want to install it again, thanks. Nothing but doubt and program crashes.
Just a point of clarification, those aren’t AV’s, they’re Antispywares. Small distinction, but important if anyone reads this and thinks it’s ok to install more than 1 AV. (It’s almost always not ok.)
Ad-Aware is an old good boy… I think it will add nothing to MBAM and SAS that you already has.
Well, after that you’ll complain that there are too many processes running in your computer… (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=44583.0).
Don’t flood your computer ;D
avast!'s built-in antispyware (a/v & a/s use same scanning engine for low resource use) does a great job, no other a/s is needed. SAS & mbam are great on-demand scanners for backup.
Although I’m no fan of S&D, the Teatime is a resident function and as such isn’t redundant with SAS as the OP’s version is the free one which has no resident protection
No, I’m not making any recommendation, just an observation. It is just saying that contrary to what YoKenny said Teatimer isn’t redundant just because you have SAS, because the free version of SAS doesn’t have any resident function, so teatimer could provide limited resident functionality.
There is however IMHO such a thing ad you can get too much of a good thing and that includes security software. Given that you have avast which does have anti-spyware built in and two on-demand anti-spyware scanners (SAS and MBAM), perhaps that is enough (perhaps S&D is redundant), see my signature.
For immunization as Tech mentions you could use SpywareBlaster which has an immunization only function the program doesn’t run in the background consuming resources.
I told you I earlier I’m not making a recommendation, just observations ;D
What you decide is on your system is your choice based on the information you gather from this topic.