Straylight (post: 1421683) wrote:AVG is good, it's worth having 2 on your computer though as pretty much all antivirus programs have holes in their databases so can't counter everything that's out there. I got hit with 2 viruses when I had AVG installed and running, both of which it couldn't pick up.
Mithrandir (post: 1421923) wrote:Can I caveat this? It's OK to have two AV progs on your machine, but you'll probably only want to have one running "in the background" instead of two. Background AV can REALLY tax the machine, and when two get running at the same time, it can seriously churn through your system resources (I've seen drives burned out because of thrashing issues).
There's nothing wrong with manually launching a 2nd prog once or twice a week (or even on boot, if you want), but I'd be hesitant to recommend running multiple copies in the background all the time.
YMMV!
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