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| Thread ID: 55175 | 2005-03-04 20:26:00 | Running utility programs | Richard (739) | Press F1 |
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| 330652 | 2005-03-04 20:26:00 | This may be a silly question for a Saturday morning, but is it possible to run a Norton virus scan, Spybot, Registry Mechanic and AdAware all at the same time? Up until now I have run each separately which takes ages. Cheers Richard |
Richard (739) | ||
| 330653 | 2005-03-04 21:39:00 | Cant see why not. Altho, the only way to find out, is to try it, see what happens. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 330654 | 2005-03-04 21:44:00 | all these programs will take up all your ram and might cause your pc to crash, so run them one at a time | Prescott (11) | ||
| 330655 | 2005-03-04 21:45:00 | Not at all a silly question. One I have wondered about myself but never asked. I have never done it because I believed it would be simpler to do them one after the other and the simpler you made it for your machine ( to get better) the more likely it would be to work. Especially when it's sick and the healing is more important than saving a bit of time. (Like getting biffed out of hospital too soon.) m |
mark c (247) | ||
| 330656 | 2005-03-04 22:10:00 | Good question indeed. Normally I run two utility programs at one time, but I only run antivirus scan 1 at a time. | Renmoo (66) | ||
| 330657 | 2005-03-04 22:14:00 | no. spybot and adaware will crash each other out. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 330658 | 2005-03-04 22:36:00 | well that's funny cause i've run spybot and adaware at the same time as running avg as well.........sure these progs will max out your ram most likely and yoru cpu and this may end up with you haveing a freezup.......I'd run a couple at once anyway...... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 330659 | 2005-03-04 23:18:00 | well that's funny cause i've run spybot and adaware at the same time as running avg as well.........sure these progs will max out your ram most likely and yoru cpu and this may end up with you haveing a freezup.......I'd run a couple at once anyway...... These programs will run simultaneously quite happily, but when they all find the same problems and you try to remove the problems, that is where it can all turn to custard. I think that is where tweak'e is coming from. I know this from experience as I ran Ad-Aware, SpyBot and MS Anti-Spyware all at the same time last week and it was a mess doing the clean up at the end as the all found the same piece of malware. :( |
Miami Steve (2128) | ||
| 330660 | 2005-03-04 23:41:00 | I sometimes run Adaware and an anti-virus program at the same time depending on the computer I am working on but it does reduce slow computers down to a crawl, as one would expect . Even faster computers tend to get so bogged down that using the computer for anything else becomes such a drag that you may as well run just one at a time and do something useful while you are waiting . Also, after the first two utilities have run, eg an anti-virus program and Adaware, the others have less to do as the malware gets progressively removed so I believe that in the long run it is probably quicker to run one at a time . You could probably set them all up to run overnight or while you are away from the machine but the drawback with that is they can't look after themselves because they nearly all need you to progress to the next step of confirming their actions, quarantining, etc . |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 330661 | 2005-03-05 00:42:00 | i have had the missfortune of trying to open adaware while spybot was running. total pc crash. the other thing that can happen is the scanning enigines can do a few werid things (including crashing and not working at all) when they are scanning the same thing at the same time. i usually find its best to run one at a time. the AV usually picks up the really nasty spyware anyway which makes life easier for spybot/adaware. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
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