re: Windows Defender /Norton 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 5:18 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(22024 messages posted)
In general, you can't run two active AV programs simultaneously; and as already indicated
you could hardly have picked a worse pair to protect your system.
On Monday, July 6, 2009 at 4:25 pm, ptp2 wrote:
>My computer recently crashed. The hard drive was formatted and the original WXP
Home
> was installed with all the updates including SP3 and Windows defender. I added
Norton
>antivirus 2009. Everything was fine for a while, but since yesterday I get a message
>when the computer turns from windows Security Center indicating that the firewall
>is not turned on and my copmputer is at risk. After I click on the red balloon icon
>on my task bar (as suggested by the Windows security center) Norton loads, the firewall
>is on and the computer is fine.
>
>I have changed the Windows Defender Services to "Manual". Hopefully if it does not
>load on at start up I might eliminate the problem.
>I would feel a lot better if I could have these two programs protecting my computer
>but somehow they are conflicting.
>
>I was wondering if anyone has a suggestion.
>
>Thanks for any help
>
>ptp
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