Annoyances.org - re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Windows XP Discussion Forum)


Home » Windows XP Discussion Forum » Message 1112630718	Search \| Help \| Home

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps
Monday, April 4, 2005 at 9:05 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by borg (2664 messages posted)

You should make an experiment to see what happens. Visit this page, disable (temporarily) both antiviruses, download and save the eicar.com file then re-enable antiviruses and open a explorer window in the folder containing eicar.com. All antiviruses should react to that file like it's a real virus, but it's just a harmless file used as a test. If your two av's are starting to block each other's access to the file and neither is capable to do anything about it, then you know why is so bad to have two on-access av's.

Here is an excellent article about malware, you should read it. This should explain why some people can use their computers even without antivirus or antispyware apps and never get infected while others will catch malwares no matter how many up-to-date defenses they have. I have NAV (but I never used it to remove an active infection), Spybot and AdAware but these are just on-demand scanners and I never got any spyware. Why?

Hint: if you see an advertising banner for some "free" program, don't touch it. Freeware makers don't have money for advertising.

Written in response to:: re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Chris: Sunday, April 3, 2005 at 6:20 pm)

There are presently no replies to this message.

All messages in this thread [show all]

Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Chris: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 5:02 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Steve: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 5:20 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Chris: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 5:42 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Steve: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 6:05 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Chris: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 6:20 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Falcon: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 6:32 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Chris: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 6:39 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 6:48 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Chris: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 6:52 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 7:05 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Chris: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 7:14 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 7:28 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (joe: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 8:35 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Falcon: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 7:29 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Chris: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 7:33 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Falcon: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 7:47 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Chris: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 7:53 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Chris: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 8:02 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Falcon: Mon, Apr 4, 2005, 6:09 am)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 8:04 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Chris: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 8:09 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (werner: Mon, Apr 4, 2005, 9:01 am)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 6:39 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (borg: Mon, Apr 4, 2005, 9:05 am)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 5:47 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 5:54 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Tom Swanson: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 8:03 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Ms. Eagle: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 8:43 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Ricer46: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 9:32 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Falcon: Mon, Apr 4, 2005, 6:06 am)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Tom Swanson: Mon, Apr 4, 2005, 4:32 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Tom Swanson: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 8:05 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Chris: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 8:12 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Tom Swanson: Sun, Apr 3, 2005, 8:27 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (MLS: Mon, Apr 4, 2005, 8:46 am)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (Chris: Mon, Apr 4, 2005, 12:08 pm)

re: Memory Issue - Using too many antispyware apps (MLS: Wed, Apr 6, 2005, 7:49 am)

re: Ok but, How Many Anti-Spyware Apps??? (Brad: Wed, Sep 20, 2006, 2:12 am)

Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum