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AVG and Threatfire

After using AVG 8 and finding that my system had slowed down a fair bit and in some cases had stopped me getting onto the net, I've downloaded AVG 7 again. All seems to be working fine again.
My question is - can I run Threatfire alongside AVG with no bad effects ?
It actually says on the tf website that you CAN run with other antivirus programs but has anybody done this ?
Thanks

Comments

  • TonyLisaP
    TonyLisaP Posts: 505 Forumite
    The problem with running two anti-virus scanners at the same time is that everything is getting scanned twice, that is not a problem on a good PC with plenty of free resources, IE a dual core processor and 2GB's RAM. On a lower spec machine it can slow you down.

    Why do you want to run both concurrently?
  • chrispbug
    chrispbug Posts: 202 Forumite
    I've read the Threatfire site FAQs and TF is not an antivirus program but a 'run alongside' program. Perhaps I'm paranoid
  • spakkker
    spakkker Posts: 1,322 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I am using those two progs now but I installed threatfire as a firewall. I have had no probs so far -a month or more- and tf seems ok as firewall.
    Have got overclocked dual core and 2 gb ram
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