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Offline Morro41

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Some questions i have.
« on: August 12, 2016, 07:24:20 PM »
First ... in this thread some one mentions Avast + McShield and once a week a scan with MBAM.

https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=189646.0

Now I already use Avast ( Duhh.:) ) and MBAM Free, and after looking at McShield on their website it looks to me like it does things that Avast already does? ( Or am I mistaken in that? )

The second thing is that when I first installed Avast again after a longtime I also hat VoodooShield installed, but it would no longer start up no matter what I tried. Is this also because Avast does the things VoodooShield does. ( Well up to a certain point at least? )
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Re: Some questions i have.
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2016, 07:32:39 PM »
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and after looking at McShield on their website it looks to me like it does things that Avast already does? ( Or am I mistaken in that? )
Yes and No

MCShield only target those type of malware that use removable drives to spread
It mostly do so on how they spread so for most part it dont need signature to detect
It is only active at computer startup and when you plug in a USB device so it use no system resource


And does it work?
oh yes just surf the Viruses and Worms forum section and see all the USB devices cleaned by the malware removal team ... on computers using avast



« Last Edit: August 12, 2016, 07:36:55 PM by Pondus »

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Re: Some questions i have.
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2016, 11:19:07 PM »
Thank you Pondus, guess I will go and install it then. :)
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Re: Some questions i have.
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2016, 12:38:01 AM »
You might also want to install Unchecky. :)
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Re: Some questions i have.
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2016, 11:49:16 AM »
You might also want to install Unchecky. :)

I installed it about 4 months ago, still thank you bob3160. :)
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Re: Some questions i have.
« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2016, 12:27:32 AM »
I almost forgot to ask again after my question about MCShield was answered, but does any one know why I could not use VoodooShield any more after I started using Avast? I tried excluding VoodooShield back then, but it would not work, so I hat to uninstall it.
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Re: Some questions i have.
« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2016, 06:48:20 PM »
I almost forgot to ask again after my question about MCShield was answered, but does any one know why I could not use VoodooShield any more after I started using Avast? I tried excluding VoodooShield back then, but it would not work, so I hat to uninstall it.

No one has an idea?
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Re: Some questions i have.
« Reply #8 on: August 17, 2016, 11:51:24 AM »
https://blog.kaspersky.com/multiple-antivirus-programs-bad-idea/2670/

Hmm so the most obvious reason. Still, odd that it worked perfectly with the previous AV I used. I could use 360 TSE with VoodooShield with out a problem, and with out having it sap my system?

Oh well, I have my answer and I no longer use 360 TSE, thank you Eddy. :)
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Re: Some questions i have.
« Reply #9 on: August 17, 2016, 02:11:09 PM »
https://blog.kaspersky.com/multiple-antivirus-programs-bad-idea/2670/

Hmm so the most obvious reason. Still, odd that it worked perfectly with the previous AV I used. I could use 360 TSE with VoodooShield with out a problem, and with out having it sap my system?

Oh well, I have my answer and I no longer use 360 TSE, thank you Eddy. :)
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It's called Passive Mode:
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Re: Some questions i have.
« Reply #10 on: August 17, 2016, 10:54:39 PM »
New in the latest version:
It's called Passive Mode:
http://screencast-o-matic.com/screenshots/u/Lh/1471435628975-65642.png

Thank you bob3160, but I will not do that. I really like VoodooShield but I will not lessen the protection that Avast gives.
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