If two antivrus apps are running at the same time (for example) and you get a virus in an email... and you try to open it-- both apps will react at the same microseceond-- quite probably interfering with each other-- and perhaps allowing the virus to get through.

You may like to add that you can as a matter of fact run multiple anti-virus programs...just have only one real-time protection monitor on at a single time. There's nothing at all wrong periodically running an anti-virus scan with more than one anti-virus program. The key here is that it's just a scan - it starts, it scans, and then it's done. There's no opportunity to come in to conflict with another anti-virus program.

Actually the possibility of letting the virus getting through is very minimal for such a situation...you'll probably get error messages, crashes or other failures for the conflicting anti-virus programs. Just thought I would like to clear this up...for technical sake.

Originally Posted by jakedude182

Hi, I use AVG Antivirus and spysweeper with antivirus. I have to turn off the real time protection for one of these, which would you say is a better protector to use?

thanks, jake

Originally Posted by chiaz

If I'm not wrong, SpySweeper's AV engine is from Sophos.