Is Mcafee compatable with AVG?

urban_fox

Hi,
Just purchased Mcafee Security Suite 2006 and have installed it on my PC. At present, I also have AVG free edition installed and am running Windows XP SP2.Can I have them side by side or will I have to disable AVG? One of my concerns is that there will be a systems drag. Also Win XP comes with a Firewall pre-installed.

espresso

If you have purchased and installed Mcafee Security Suite, uninstall AVG and switch off the Windoze firewall.

urban_fox

I;ve been able to disable windows firewall but when I try uninstalling AVG I get the message "INSTALLATION FAILED!"

fox2319

The McAfee installation may have mucked about with the AVG. Restart in safe mode then try to uninstall AVG there.

HTH

Jeff

espresso

urban_fox wrote:

I;ve been able to disable windows firewall but when I try uninstalling AVG I get the message "INSTALLATION FAILED!"

RegCleaner should uninstall it for you.

skiddy2k

You can keep AVG if you want, but you have to configure both the AVs... (add both of them to eachother's trusted zone for fileAV)... or else, KABOOMMMM!... (crash, unstable, majorly slow PC)