can i have norton AND mcafee antivirus?
#1
as the title says, can i have both on my pc? i had the sircam virus wipeout five years of stuff on my pc last week, and never want it to happen again!
i have norton installed, but i also have mcafee waiting to go on. will it screw things up if i put it on as well?
thanks for your help
i have norton installed, but i also have mcafee waiting to go on. will it screw things up if i put it on as well?
thanks for your help
#3
the reason being is that i never had antivirus software on my pc before sircam
after i got sircam, i rushed out and bought mcafee on the advice of a friend. as soon as i loaded it, my pc died a death. had to have my pc fixed big style, windows reloaded etc ( you can tell i know sod all about pc's eh ), went out and bought norton after i got my pc back. a lot of guys on here were recommending norton, so went and got that too( it was going cheap in pc world bundled with norton utilities )
so, im now a very paranoid pc knownowt, perhaps going into overkill i know, but i really dont want to have this **** again.
any advice greatly appreciated
cheers
after i got sircam, i rushed out and bought mcafee on the advice of a friend. as soon as i loaded it, my pc died a death. had to have my pc fixed big style, windows reloaded etc ( you can tell i know sod all about pc's eh ), went out and bought norton after i got my pc back. a lot of guys on here were recommending norton, so went and got that too( it was going cheap in pc world bundled with norton utilities )
so, im now a very paranoid pc knownowt, perhaps going into overkill i know, but i really dont want to have this **** again.
any advice greatly appreciated
cheers
#4
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Virus checkers conflict with enough other applications without doing it to each other. Wouldn't try it.
One or the other, and make sure you are firewalled as well -
One or the other, and make sure you are firewalled as well -
#5
cheers dave, downloaded that tonight too. not entirely sure what it does ( ie does it check for latest viruses) and also not entirely sure what a firewall is either, but nevertheless i got it now. anything to make life harder for hackers, and other low lifes who wanna **** my pc.
cheers!
cheers!
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Turbo,
do you ever back things up?
I am being serious here - if you have things (data, documents, whatever) that you consider important - you MUST back them up to somewhere just in case!!!
Forget viruses, worms and trojans - what if your hard drive "blew up"?!?!
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do you ever back things up?
I am being serious here - if you have things (data, documents, whatever) that you consider important - you MUST back them up to somewhere just in case!!!
Forget viruses, worms and trojans - what if your hard drive "blew up"?!?!
mb
#7
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Your machine will run like a dog - never understood that phrase - if you run two resident virus scanners.
Run McAfee, if it goes **** up I'll help you out... anyone from Symantec in the house??
Run McAfee, if it goes **** up I'll help you out... anyone from Symantec in the house??
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I would recommend that you get a firewall program as well as the antivirus stuff. I got one bundled with a copy of Norton anitvirus which I brought after I discovered that my computer was infected by a virus. Thankfully it didn't turn out to be serious, but I've now started taking extra precautions.
The firewall has recently detected 3 attempted intrusions on to my computer, the most recent was an hour a go when I got a message saying "Security Alert : attempted intrusion by Backdoor/Subseven Trojan Horse"
I don't know how serious this was, but I'm damn glad I've got this software fitted.
[This message has been edited by Newbie123 (edited 11 August 2001).]
The firewall has recently detected 3 attempted intrusions on to my computer, the most recent was an hour a go when I got a message saying "Security Alert : attempted intrusion by Backdoor/Subseven Trojan Horse"
I don't know how serious this was, but I'm damn glad I've got this software fitted.
[This message has been edited by Newbie123 (edited 11 August 2001).]
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