Potential Conflicts?

Has anyone information on whether there are conflicts between AVG, Ad-aware 2007, Spybot S&D, CounterSpy and Spyware Blaster? Currently I have CounterSpy and AVG (using Kerio's firewall) but have not tried the others in a few years now.

 

I am inclined to add to broni's recommendation by suggesting you do not have two or more memory-resident anti-spyware components running at the same time.

For example, AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5 has a "Resident shield" component and Spybot-Search & Destroy 1.5.2 has a "TeaTimer" component. If I understand correctly, both of those components continuously monitor the computer system for suspicious activity. I suspect those may conflict with each other, especially if they detect the same piece of spyware at the same time. It seems they would "fight" each other for control over the spyware they detect. (BTW, those memory-resident components may be disabled if desired.)

Since we have not established in this thread whether James (and Pete) referred to AVG Anti-Virus or AVG Anti-Spyware, I want to point out that Grisoft offers both (as separate applications).

• AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 7.5 (download page link)

• AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5 (paid version) (trial)
  I think AVG Anti-Spyware continues working after the trial period expires except the automatic update feature is disabled at that time. Therefore, one would need to remember to manually update on a regular basis. There may also be other features that are disabled when the trial period expires.

EDIT: I would guess James (and Pete?) were referring to AVG Anti-Spyware since the rest of the products identified in that sentence are all anti-spyware products. However, Pete's Feb. 29 post in another thread makes me think PeteC might have referred to AVG Anti-Virus above.

EDIT #2: One may want to consider the information available via this link when deciding whether to install a Grisoft product or not.