Can i use avast and mse together

Home Help Search Login Register. Pages: [ 1 ] Go Down. PHJ Newbie Posts: 2. Recently read on a well known tech site that we could use Avast and MSE together and am questioning that advice always been told that two anti-virus programs running at the same time would interfer with each other, sometimes very seriously. I know Avast made the effort to make sure that it works with Windows 7 but did they also prove that Avast and Microsoft Security Essentials could run on the same computer at the same time without confilict?

RedFan Full Member Posts: Microsoft Security Essentials is a free anti-malware suite for Windows. You can download it from Microsoft's website. MSE offers real-time protection against a range of threats, including Trojan horses and spyware, as well as viruses.

Real-time protection means that as well as performing scans for existing infections, Security Essentials runs continually in the background to check for suspicious activity. SpywareBlaster is chiefly aimed at stopping malware based on ActiveX, a program-independent framework for designing software applications. SpywareBlaster works by disabling the identifiers used by ActiveX objects. This prevents malicious ActiveX-based objects from being installed on your system.

It also blocks tracking cookies which can be used to spy on your browsing habits and allows you to take a snapshot of your system in a healthy state, which you can then revert back to in the wake of any infection. SpywareBlaster is a passive program -- it doesn't require processor time or tie up your computer's RAM, or other system resources such as drivers or services.

When you have two different programs running at the same time, they can come into conflict with each other. By clicking join, I agree totally that i would really like information, recommendations, and will be offering about Microsoft shop along with other Microsoft products. Privacy Report. Skip to main content. Avast Antivirus Download Center. See Program Demands. Available on PC Hub.

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