Re: win defender + AntiVirus compatibility?

From: "Manish" <Manish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

| can win defender be simultaniously used with another antivirus utility safely
| without causing errors in either ones running?

Windows Defender is NOT an anti virus. It is geared only to spyware and adware.
However it can happily coexist with a "real" anti virus application.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp


.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Recovering from a Trojan
    ... corrupt system files. ... a genuine xp cd or from ... I received a message from my CA Anti Virus software that it had two trojan items deleted from my system. ... Windows Defender can't undo changes that you allow. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: My Security centre icon and bubble wont go away
    ... tick in the checkbox titled " I have an anti virus program that I`ll ... You do *not* have an anti-virus program ... Windows Defender is not an anti-virus program. ... Microsoft MVP ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Current top AV freeware?
    ... Top; adaptive software; HijackThis ad lib). ... Ad-aware, Windows Defender, SpyBot S&D, etc are NOT anti virus ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
  • Re: Anti virus / Spyware?Trial and Error?
    ... I only have Panda IS 2008 anti-virus then Windows Defender and Spybot S/D for ... "Jerry" wrote: ... I use to use AVG free then changed to Avast (which picked up virus and ... XP from scratch or trying a different lot of Anti virus ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin)
  • RE: auto updats are disabled
    ... A very good antimalware app is SUPERAntiSpyware. ... includes active monitoring, similar to Windows defender: ... updates from Microsoft updates. ... My anti virus does not detect ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsupdate)