Avira & Malawarebytes

stefano

Will Malawarebytes conflict with Avira?
I seem to remember you cannot run 2 antivirus softwares on the same pc.

peter_the_piper

Malwarebytes is not an anti virus so is ok .

aliEnRIK

So long as you use the free version of malwarebytes its fine

tomsolomon

People are still using non M$ security software???:exclamati:huh::wave::wall:

MBAM is a very good program actually, But Avira....:doh:

Put it like this.....
It's like putting diesel in a petrol car.....

MSE
Money Saving Expert
Microsoft Security Essentials....
Eithers good....
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

notjustanyone

aliEnRIK wrote: »

So long as you use the free version of malwarebytes its fine

I'm curious about that comment RIK, would you care to expand?

I'm using the full blown activated version of malwarebytes and it's running fine along with my free version of Avira, are you suggesting different?

esuhl

tomsolomon wrote: »

MBAM is a very good program actually, But Avira....:doh:

When I did some research a year or so ago, Avira was regularly in the top three free antiviruses, based on heuristic detection (all AVs I looked at detected 100% of wild viruses in the tests). The percentage of lab viruses detected heuristically was only about one or two pertentage points higher in the top paid-for AVs.

If I remember rightly,the top free AVs were Avast, Avira and AVG (in that order), but Avira is much less memory-intensive than the other two and has the simplest interface, so it's the one I use on my PCs.

tomsolomon

esuhl wrote: »

When I did some research a year or so ago, Avira was regularly in the top three free antiviruses, based on heuristic detection (all AVs I looked at detected 100% of wild viruses in the tests). The percentage of lab viruses detected heuristically was only about one or two pertentage points higher in the top paid-for AVs.

If I remember rightly,the top free AVs were Avast, Avira and AVG (in that order), but Avira is much less memory-intensive than the other two and has the simplest interface, so it's the one I use on my PCs.

A year is a very long time in the IT industry...:P

spud17

notjustanyone wrote: »

I'm curious about that comment RIK, would you care to expand?

I'm using the full blown activated version of malwarebytes and it's running fine along with my free version of Avira, are you suggesting different?

Probably because the paid for version has realtime scanning, this is the component that monitors your machine at all times for nasties.

Avira also has this, called AntiVir Guard, this can be turned off, worth checking.

It is these realtime scanners which cause the conflicts, and are the reason that 2 AVs should not generally be used together.


Also Avira a resource hog? :rotfl:

I'm with esuhl, use it and recommend it.

aliEnRIK

notjustanyone wrote: »

I'm curious about that comment RIK, would you care to expand?

I'm using the full blown activated version of malwarebytes and it's running fine along with my free version of Avira, are you suggesting different?

Both are scanning files in 'realtime'. The free version only scans on demand.
With them both scanning in realtime they 'may' counteract one another in certain cases

notjustanyone

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Both are scanning files in 'realtime'. The free version only scans on demand.
With them both scanning in realtime they 'may' counteract one another in certain cases

Cheers, would you suggest removing the realtime scanning on malwarebytes then?

aliEnRIK

tomsolomon wrote: »

People are still using non M$ security software???:exclamati:huh::wave::wall:

MBAM is a very good program actually, But Avira....:doh:

Put it like this.....
It's like putting diesel in a petrol car.....

How do you work that out then?

And yes, im one of those not using microsofts software