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Title: avast pro and malwarebytes pro
Post by: pmal67 on January 01, 2010, 02:22:39 AM
Happy New Year to all ,

an Irish question ,

should I be running avast pro and malwarebytes pro at the sametime or is this just overkill on my part

paul
Title: Re: avast pro and malwarebytes pro
Post by: DavidR on January 01, 2010, 02:58:56 AM
Short answer no.

malwarebytes Pro is a specialist anti-malware and shouldn't conflict with avast. I use SAS Pro and MBAM on-demand with no issue with avast.
Title: Re: avast pro and malwarebytes pro
Post by: pmal67 on January 01, 2010, 08:42:19 AM
Hello DavidR,
your advice would be just to run avast pro and to switch off mbam ??

happy new year

paul(http://)
Title: Re: avast pro and malwarebytes pro
Post by: cinchez on January 01, 2010, 10:02:07 AM
Based from his answer, he meant "yes" in ur main question[not in the or part]^^ and "no" in the or part^^
[correct me if Im wrong David^^] ;D
Good luck and Happy new year

-AnimeLover^^
Title: Re: avast pro and malwarebytes pro
Post by: Chris Thomas on January 01, 2010, 10:44:25 AM
You can run avast pro and malwarebytes pro simultaneously.
Title: Re: avast pro and malwarebytes pro
Post by: pmal67 on January 01, 2010, 10:47:13 AM
thanks chris for clearing that one up 
Title: Re: avast pro and malwarebytes pro
Post by: Rednose on January 01, 2010, 01:53:16 PM
I use Avast Pro ( at the moment Avast 5 Beta ) with MBAM Pro, and they do well together :)

Greetz, Red.
Title: Re: avast pro and malwarebytes pro
Post by: DavidR on January 01, 2010, 05:20:14 PM
Hello DavidR,
your advice would be just to run avast pro and to switch off mbam ??

happy new year

paul(http://)


No its not overkill.

It shouldn't conflict with avast resident or on-demand. I only have MBAM as on-demand as I have SAS Pro (hopefully you would have noticed), which is a resident anti-spyware and you shouldn't have two resident scanners from the same type (anti-spyware/malware).