[pchelpers] Re: Questionable Windows Defender Results

  • From: Jackie McBride <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 20:20:03 -0700

I personally like Malwarebytes' Antimalwarebytes.
www.malwarebytes.org
Occasionally it gives false positives, so, if in doubt, u might wanna
check w/some1.

On 5/5/10, George T. Cox <georgetcox@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Wow Jackie! You are so right! I forgot to turn off Avira Anti-Virus
> while I ran the scan. I don't use Windows Defender's real-time scanning.
> I just run it periodically in case there might be something Avira
> overlooked. I've been thinking of uninstalling WD .
>
> On 5/5/2010 7:10 PM, Jackie McBride wrote:
>> George, do u perchance have another antispyware or antivirus running
>> at the same time as windows Defender? I personally have never been a
>> fan of that software--seen it ham over more machines than I can
>> count--but if there are 2 programs of the same type trying to do
>> real-time protection on your machine, you're cruisin' for a bruisin'.
>>
>>
>
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