I know it's a no-no to run more than one anti-virus program on your computer at a time. Apparantly the "real-time" monitoring functions of two or more AV apps can conflict.

Does the same run true with MS Defender Beta? I read that it has real-time protection.

Currently, for anti-spy, I am only running adaware (the free version). Does anybody here run both adaware (or spybot) along side Defender?

If so, how's it going? Would there be any problems to me running both?

thanks--

oven

running multiple antispy's is fine (microsoft will say different but thats just cuz they want u to use theres only)

Ya man , it wont interfere. If you have active protection enabled in al og them , each shall post a query when something unexpected happens.

I suggest letting Defender run in the background , and using the other two for occasional scans

thanks guys, will do.

I insatll Windows Defender and Ad-Aware on machines and tell people that Windows Defender will actively scan things, and Ad-Aware is for manual scanning in case they think Defender missed something....

I figure Ad-Aware is perfect to compliment Defender because it's not real-time protection, you actually NEED to start it to run it....

okay nakatomi_

I'll do just that. THX. so far, it works great. i am very pleased.

Actually I disagree. I think it is a bad idea to run some antispyware apps together. MS Defender and Ad-Aware are fine in my book. But Ad-Watch and MS Defender would probably be a bad idea. As long as you only use on Antispyware as your real time protection I think you'll be fine. But 2 real time protections may cause you problems. I have seen issues in the past with MS Antispyware and Ad-Watch.