antivirus programs

[Tracerfi]

i have McAfee through Verizon and am wondering if any other antivirus programs  would work
with my current antivirus

[100Coogn]

I'm pretty sure that it's not a good idea to have two anti-virus programs running on the same computer.
At least that's what I've read here on the forums.

Coogan

[Bizman]

Coogan is right. They'll fight each other, causing your computer freeze in the worst scenario. Most commercial antivirus programs also try to uninstall any previous ones before they get installed to avoid conflicts.

I've also heard that McAfee (and Norton) do things that you won't necessarily like.

For a multi layer shield you can add something like Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware which isn't an anti-virus program plus some ad-blocking add-ons to your browsers, such as AdBlock Plus. Good reading about multi layer security can be found here: http://windowssecrets.com/top-story/the-best-of-langalist-plus-from-2013/

[Mar]

Worth stating again.  The fastest way to get your computer screwed up is to allow Windows to automatically install driver updates.  Well,...assuming you do not have McAfee or Norton installed.  If so, then Microsoft created problems are just a pebble being tossed into the Grand Canyon of problems.

[glzsqd]

McAfee isn't very good at all, really all it does is eat up resources in the background. I'd suggest you uninstall it and load Microsoft security essentials.

[ebfd11]

I would recomend Eset-Nod for a AV program as it has a great gaming profile and it does not have the footprint of McCrappie or Nutings ..

[Skuzzy]

ESET is your best bet.

[bustr]

First time I tested ESET at home while I had McaFee disabled for the testing. ESET detected a number of McAfee files as viruses. Had the same thing happen with Norton at work when I tested ESET there. Coincidence, or ESET Corp really does not like those two companies.

At BofA we had a long term contract with Norton for antivirus and system auditing\monitoring. It was like having a second operating system running against everything that did not play well with others. It was verboten to suggest the ghost in the machine ATM outages might be that virus. Norton was a resource pig that didn't share when a million dollar a week application was starving to death. Norton just pointed fingers at Microsoft while Microsoft pointed fingers at 3rd party apps. Probably why BofA went to blade servers running virtual OS instances so they could just hot fail over when the ghost in the machine sucked up all the available memory.

[shotgunneeley]

I've been using Kapersky for about 4 years now. It seems to do well, but like y'all said it does not get along with other anti-virus programs. I had to get rid of SpyBot S&D because it interfered with Kapersky, something SpyBot chalks up to merely as an attempt to control the market.

[Patches1]

ESET is your best bet for gaming.