i've been told, if you have two anti virus systems on your pc.system they will ,i guess fight against eachother and won't work good, if at all? i have just got a new pc. and put in zone alarm pro. but in my hotmail it uses macafee to scan attachment's! look obviously you can probably tell i don't know much at all 'bout pc's. will this affect my system??

Welcome to PCHF Ralph!

Nope that Mcafee is on the hotmail servers.

Chris

Hi Ralph.

Just a bit of clarification here.
Zone Alarm is a Firewall program - not an anti-virus program.

Microsoft scans each document on their hotmail servers before it gets to yours - so you don't have mcafee on your computer.

If you don't have any sort of anti-virus program, please download AVG Free 7.5 from AVG Anti Virus: HOME
It's a free - really good - anti virus program.

if u have 2 antivirus programs then they will conflict act as a 2 wall and the viruses will go through middle of them. but zonealarm is a firewall program your best bet is to get a anti-virus you need 2 try and get 1 wit tru prevent.that means that it physicly blocks the virus on your comp.. for example some programs let the virus get onto your system and then tells you u got a virus eg. ( virus has been detected) so try and get a tru prevent eg. bitdefender

Yeah i agree with what GaRHaR said, more then one Anti-virus is bad and also having more then one Firewall but more then one Anti-spyware is ok.


do you have a Anti-spyware?, it's recommended that you have



1 Anti-Virus
1 Firewall
And at least 1 Anti-Spyware.


a example is,

for the Anti-virus is AVG Free 7 from AVG Anti Virus: HOME as GaRHaR said.

For the Firewall Zonealarm ZoneAlarm FREE Download

for the Anti-spyware, (you can have 1 or more.)

Ad-aware Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition
Avg Antispyware 7.5 AVG Anti-Spyware Free


as long as you keep these up to date you should be virus free .



Bugsey.

Best not to have two real-time anti spyware software though bugsey