Running MalWare Bytes along side other antivirus programs

[dan2229]

With the threat of CryptoLocker, I am considering purchasing MalWare Bytes Pro. My question is can MWB run simultaneous with Avast Free?

I have at one time run MWB free version along side Avast, but wondered if some of the wonkiness my laptop was having was due to having both running at the same time. MWB website says that it is compatible with at least a dozen other programs.

I noticed before that MWB displayed in the right-hand tray and seemed to do its work before Avast kicked in. The computer also seemed to run more slowly with both turned on.

I ended up doing a restore and ditching MWB in favor of Avast. Since then the computer has run well, but I am a bit concerned with what I have been reading over the past week.

My plan would be to run MWB and Avast on both my laptops, one running Windows 7 Pro, the other running Win 8.1.

Thanks for you opinions.

Daniel

 

[ChrisHirst]

With the threat of CryptoLocker,

Avast has stopped "CryptoLocker" a couple of times on my machines as soon as K9 scanned the incoming emails. I also have Spybot 1.6 and MalwareBytes on two Win7 Pro machines and a Win7 Ultimate machine with no problems.

Chris.

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[strongm]

I'm pretty sure that Avast Free is supposed to detect (as Win32:Ransom-AQH [Trj]) and stop Cryptolocker as of just under a month ago.

 

[goombawaho]

The computer also seemed to run more slowly with both turned on.

If you have more programs running, your PC will be slower especially if you have old POS computer. But, you might (depending on anti-virus product) need to put exceptions or exclusions to allow MBAM to run unfettered by your anti-virus. That is a possible source of slowness if each product is bird-dogging the other.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=95073.0

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