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re: AVG 9.0 disables Windows Defender Friday, November 6, 2009 at 6:02 am Posted by Ricer46 (23825 messages posted) Why? It's not advisable to run two AV programs at the same time. They can get in each others way. On Friday, November 6, 2009 at 5:46 am, Larry wrote: >If Grisoft/AVG did this by design they should be ashamed of themselves There is no >notice about this anywhere I could find. If it's a bug they should fix it immediately. >I've always been suspicious of AVG's Resident Sheild so I disabled it and that fixed >the problem. As a bonus two of my machines now have a noticeable improvement in responsiveness!...I'll >get to several others soon. I've posted this on AVG's forum as well where there are >several complaints about this. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: AVG 9.0 disables Windows Defender Friday, November 6, 2009 at 6:08 am Posted by Larry (1364 messages posted) Defender is not an antivirus program, as I'm sure you know, so there should be no conflicts with AVG. It's always coexisted fine with AVG in the past despite my low level suspicion about AVG's Resident Sheild. Now, if the case is that Grisoft has decided to start disabling other vendors legitimate security products because they think they know better, that's another topic entirely. On Friday, November 6, 2009 at 6:02 am, Ricer46 wrote: >Why? It's not advisable to run two AV programs at the same time. They can get in >each others way. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: AVG 9.0 disables Windows Defender Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 6:17 pm Posted by MartinM (7551 messages posted) And your point, with respect to the subject of this forum (Windows XP) is ?? [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum