17/11/2013
Why Using Multiple Antivirus Programs is a Bad
Idea.
1.They will try to kill each other. Because antivirus
programs search your system for programs that are
monitoring and sending information about your
system, a competing antivirus program that is
monitoring and sending information about your
system tends to look like a virus, so it will attempt
to block it and remove it.
2. They will fight over viruses. When an antivirus
program encounters a virus, it removes it and
quarantines it. But if a competing antivirus program
sees that quarantined file and wants to remove and
quarantine it in accordance with its own objectives,
then it will repeatedly send reports and
notifications about this virus that it is detecting,
even though it is no longer actually a threat to your
system. If you don’t want to continually get bogus
warning messages, this will be a problem for you.
3. They will sap your power. Antivirus programs
use a lot of your system memory to conduct
system scans and other related operations. If you
have two of these operating simultaneously,your
system’s effectiveness can be greatly diminished or
completely wiped out altogether, and without any
benefit, since the two are performing redundant
operations.