AVG and Threatfire

chrispbug

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

TonyLisaP

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

I've read the Threatfire site FAQs and TF is not an antivirus program but a 'run alongside' program. Perhaps I'm paranoid

spakkker

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