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Monotype
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Why do you use multiple AV-products at once? I hope you atleast have disabled their on-access protection.
You should not register more than one listener on a system event only intended for one listener. EDIT: To answer your question, no, I don't think you need to worry. I think you should worry about that you use multiple AV-products instead. |
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alch
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you can use clamwin together with another AV product, as clamwin doesn't have a on-access scanner so there will be little conflict. You may disable on-access scan in the other AV product when you are doing a clamwin scan, because another AV is likely to block access to an infected file. However this is not mandatory as the goal would have been reached anyway - a virus-infected file detected.
The infected file found by AVG in the TEMP dir was most likely a result of an error in the .chm file (compressed html help) unpacking in the clamwin where a /html file was left behind. Nothing to worry really. We will do better TEMP dir cleanup in V1. |
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Monotype
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Yes, but Avast and AVG should not be used together. Atleast not with their on-access scanning feature on. Just to make it clear to Toaster. |
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alch
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I didn't notice there were 3 . It would be a problem if 2 on-access filters are activated, however if one is disabled it is okay.
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Toaster
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Thanks to all for their response and support. "The infected file found in the TEMP dir was most likely a result of an error in the .chm file (compressed html help) unpacking in the clamwin where a /html file was left behind. Nothing to worry really. We will do better TEMP dir cleanup in V1." Wheeeew!! With reference to me having two other AV running, I really haven't noticed too much of a problem, but I'm no techie. The most I have seen is the system hang up once in a green moon, and I concluded that it must have been the two AVs. In my non technical mind I thought that running at least two AVs (with ClamWin) would be better and the occassional glitch was worth the added protection. Am I wrong? Is it that risky to the system to run two AVs (and ClamWin)? What should I do? Uninstall one? What is on-access scanning and how do I disable it? Should I disable it in Avast or AVG or both? Please respond in layman's terms. Thanks again for the support. Toaster |
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budtse
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Hi,
On-Access scanning or Realtime scanning means that everytime you open a file (execute a program or open a document), that file is scanned by the AV. This is done using a special system driver that traps the event of opening a file. If this event is trapped by 2 drivers, there could be interference. What you should do is look at the settings of Avast and AVG, and disable on-access scanning in one of them (doesn't really matter which). On-Access scanning is often enabled by a setting like "Auto-Protect" or such (don't know the specific terms for Avast or AVG). budtse |
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GuitarBob
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Well, since ClamWin is only operative upon demand and isn't resident, has no hueristics, no intrusion detection, isn't allied with a firewall, is very slow in scanning an entire hard drive, is resource intensive for those of use with older systems, and is still in development, I can certainly understand why someone would run another antivirus program alongside it. I'm willing to give it a year or so, but there's some very good antivirus software already out there with a steady, ongoing process of development.
Regards, |
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Toaster
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Still getting Avast popping up warning about Loveletter. No one really answered what I should do. Delete the file, ignore it, smile at it as it greets me in the morning as I reach work?
On the matter of the multiple AV programs, I have taken the expert advise and I have disabled the on-access scanning by AVG. Thinking of deleting AVG and Avast! for AntiVir which I saw got very good reviews and I have been using on my DELL laptop since the Norton expired. Anyone had experience with AntiVir? Anyone found that their system ran really slow with Avast!. Regards |
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alch
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Antivir is good. You can delete those files found by clamwin - they are temporary files left over after extracting an archive. Generally you can safely delete files in TEMP folder
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Toaster
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Thanks for the reply. Much appreciated.
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limewire13
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i am new here and i to have multiple av progrmas i took the advice and disabled avg free and noly have avast runing on when my computer starts so woould that be a problem if i have other av programs
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alch
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You can have any othe AV together with clamwin - it's won't conflict because clamwin does not have on-access scanning yet. However it is advisable to susopend on-access scanning in your other AV if you are doing a full disk scan with clamwin. This way the files won't be checkled twice and may result in faster scannning speed.
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limewire13
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so like if u had 4 av progrmas and only had 1 on real time scanning would that be fine and wouldn't it slow your computer.
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alch
Site Admin
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that would be ok
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