What exactly happens when you have more than 1 antivirus program?

I hear that bad things happen but what exactly?

This is what's on my computer:

- Sympatico Security Manager

--Firewall

--Anti-spyware (don't use a lot, slow)

--Anti-virus (don't use a lot, too slow)

--etc.

- SuperAntiSpyware (free ver.)

- Spybot Search and Destroy

- Ad-aware 2007 (free ver.)

- AVG Anti-virus, Anti-spware and RootKit (free ver.)

What exactly happens when you have more than 1 antivirus program?mcaffee

You should never really have more than one antivirus on your pc.They will inevitably clash with each other.

Ideally you should invest in one good antivirus software,norton or kaspersky and i recommend having possibly two anti-spyware programmes obviously not all running at the same time.

What exactly happens when you have more than 1 antivirus program?norton antivirus 2007

instead of using multi anti virus and other security tools i would suggest be aware about spyware maleware and other malicious files Use any one good Anti-virus as you mentioned you are using lots of antispywares antivirus etc , using multiple AV can be result of false virus warnings and alerts conflicts and it will also consume your memory .

Regards

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