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mindydee113
Flightless Bird
I have a question that I am a bit curious about. I'll lay out a bit of
background first. I have a laptop with Windows XP on it. A week ago I got a
nasty virus called "Malware Defense". I had both Avast and MBAM already
installed at that point, yet the "Malware Defense" still got threw. I did a
bit of research and found the following instructions for Malware removal......
http://social.answers.microsoft.com...y/thread/ba80504b-61f1-4d71-960f-b561798b7b42
As per the instructions, there are 4 steps. I already had everything I
needed on my computer, except the SUPERAntispyware, which is step 4. I
downloaded the SUPERAntispyware onto my computer, followed all the steps and
it worked. The pesky "Malware Defense" virus was gone!
So...last night I went to a site called TV Shack, that you can watch tv &
movies at. Sometimes when I go to this site, Avast will go off with a
warning and I click on "abort connection" and that is that, I continue on
watching my movie with no problem. I had been running a scan at the time
with the SUPERAntispyware, just for the hell of it. After the "Malware
Defense" virus, I was just trying to stay on top of things and make sure
nothing was wrong. While the scan is running, the Avast warning goes off and
both antivirus programs froze! I ended up having to click ignore on Avast,
which freed up the SUPERAntispyware to keep running. SUPERAntispyware then
said it found one malicious file, which I then deleted.
All that leads to my question.....do I now have too much virus protection on
my computer? I have 3..... Avast, SUPERAntispyware and MBAM. Also, I don't
know if this is my imagination, but I seem to think the computer is running a
bit slower ever since I had the problem with the Malware Defense virus. Is
it counterproductive to have all that antivirus protection? Do they end up
blocking each other and in essence "fighting over who is going to grab the
infected file"?
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background first. I have a laptop with Windows XP on it. A week ago I got a
nasty virus called "Malware Defense". I had both Avast and MBAM already
installed at that point, yet the "Malware Defense" still got threw. I did a
bit of research and found the following instructions for Malware removal......
http://social.answers.microsoft.com...y/thread/ba80504b-61f1-4d71-960f-b561798b7b42
As per the instructions, there are 4 steps. I already had everything I
needed on my computer, except the SUPERAntispyware, which is step 4. I
downloaded the SUPERAntispyware onto my computer, followed all the steps and
it worked. The pesky "Malware Defense" virus was gone!
So...last night I went to a site called TV Shack, that you can watch tv &
movies at. Sometimes when I go to this site, Avast will go off with a
warning and I click on "abort connection" and that is that, I continue on
watching my movie with no problem. I had been running a scan at the time
with the SUPERAntispyware, just for the hell of it. After the "Malware
Defense" virus, I was just trying to stay on top of things and make sure
nothing was wrong. While the scan is running, the Avast warning goes off and
both antivirus programs froze! I ended up having to click ignore on Avast,
which freed up the SUPERAntispyware to keep running. SUPERAntispyware then
said it found one malicious file, which I then deleted.
All that leads to my question.....do I now have too much virus protection on
my computer? I have 3..... Avast, SUPERAntispyware and MBAM. Also, I don't
know if this is my imagination, but I seem to think the computer is running a
bit slower ever since I had the problem with the Malware Defense virus. Is
it counterproductive to have all that antivirus protection? Do they end up
blocking each other and in essence "fighting over who is going to grab the
infected file"?
--
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http://www.windowskb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/windowsxp/201001/1