Good to run more than 1 anti-virus program?

I am currently using Norton 360 and I'm wondering if it would be good to install in addittion to this program other anti-virus programs such as Spybot and Ad-Aware or would installing these anti-virus progams just slow down my computer?

 

No, its not, its like having two wives and they know about each other

 

Damn, I knew it was bad, but had no idea . . .

 

It proves a point.

 

However, I thought spybot, and ad-aware were just spyware killers, not anti-virus.

For all I know, having multiple anti-spyware software is OK(I used to have both Ad-Aware, and Spybot on my old machine with no problems), but can anyone confirm?

BTW, Ad-Aware, and Spybot do not run on the background, they are just scanners that you should use if you think you got spyware installed, so they won't slow down the computer(this is only true on the freeware versions, on the premium ones you do have to option to have real time scanning).

 

Correct spybot, ad-aware etc are NOT any form of anti virus and thus are okay to install even if you have norton installed. However do not install for instance trend micro, kaspersky or avast etc as these are anti virus solutions and should not be installed if you have norton already installed.

 

My usual AV is Avast! (free), but I install and run a-Squared (free) now and again. Other security type software in use is described on my website.

 

I'd limit it to one resident (real-time) antivirus and at most one resident anti-spyware program.

But it's fine to keep other AV programs around and not run them in resident mode and just scan your hard drive with them once in a while.

 

Rep for using the perfect analogy to explain that....lol!

 

Good analogy.... Rep+ for that !!