Hi David,
        My strategy is to have Norton Anti-Virus running in the background all
the time, and doing a weekly scan with Norton.  I do not have McAfee
Anti-Virus running in the background all the time; instead, I just do a
weekly scan with it.
        I have no problems with Norton running in the background while doing
the weekly scan with McAfee.  That may not be true with all Anti-Virus
programs, so if you encounter problems, just temporarily disable the
program you have running in the background when you do your weekly scan
with the other.
        Mark makes a good point about the performance hit you would take if you
were able to have two Anti-Virus programs running in the background all
the time.

                                        Terry L. Clark
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[log in to unmask] (David Jonathan Justman) wrote:

> I have McAfee VirusScan, which I've been using for a long time, and a
> Cheyenne virus scanner which I didn't even install because I gathered
> that having 2 scanners installed on the same machine can cause
> problems.  Read this from Eliashim, for example:
> We do not recommend having two Anti-virus products on one computer is
> not a good idea as they both hold within them information about
> viruses - and this may result in one program finding non-existent
> viruses in the other... What we call false alarms. Also both programs
> try to probe the computer's workspace i.e. memory, HD, etc. conflicts
> are bound to occur!
> Now I hear that many people use several scanners.  Should I install
> Cheyenne?
>
> Thank you.
> David Jonathan Justman


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