Can windows security essentials run with avg

Eve Blakemore. We can ensure this page stays updated with the most relevant information on how to help protect your PC. What is Windows Defender Offline? You may also like these articles Featured image for 6 strategies to reduce cybersecurity alert fatigue in your SOC. Thread starter Apophis Start date Nov 1, If you have two softwares installed doing the same thing conflicts will arise. Stick with Microsoft Essentials.

I know of too many people who have issues with AVG. If you want to try something else then try Avast Free. It is superior to AVG. Route44 said:. Click to expand Awesome Thanks for all the Input guys it is Much appreciated. You're very welcome. Stay safe online. Thanks for clarifying. You state the facts then give your well founded interpretation of them.

I really appreciate that. I feel like I learned something today. I always look for independent test results, and I tend to use av-comparatives. MSE only occasionally appears in the av-comparatives. I see no reason to look further than av-comparatives. For free antivirus I use Avast!.

I configure carefully, tightening up several settings. For subscription antivirus, I recommend Kaspersky because of its usually superior results in av-comparatives. And full removal? Should one uninstall MSE and install a third party anti-virus or continue using MSE simultaneously with a third-party antivirus like Avira or Avast free versions? The article you commented on is pretty clear about your first question. Should I? This behaviour is designed to prevent conflicts and reduce false positives and system resource hogging.

In general it is not recommended to run more than one real-time Anti-Virus scanner at a time due to conflicts and resourcing issues. Microsoft themselves have it listed on their webpage that Windows Defender is created to be as unobtrusive as possible.

It is designed to put itself right in the background if a different solution is installed. I am a computer consultant with 45 years experience. I have been using MSE since it first came out. I have small business clients that I have put MSE on all computers. It does a good job for all my clients. My major concern however has been from time to time when doing my audits of their networks or individual work stations I do find Malware PUP files and occasional virus or Trojan.

NO anti-malware tool — seriously, not a single one — will catch ALL malware. Since I leave my computer on all night to back up and run a virus scan, I also run a MalwareBytes scan. Windows 10 has Windows Defender automatically installed and and enabled. Windows Defender is essentially the same as Microsoft Security Essentials. I am sceptical of these AV test pages to be quite honest.

Who runs them? Are they truly independent? Honestly, if you know what they test for, you can create an AV program to pass tests. I prefer real world results over tests. It smooth as silk. I certainly can not say the same for the majority of other free solutions, and even paid solutions. Ending my rant now, but honestly I feel testing against known tests, like benchmarking, may give an idea of performance, but it certainly has no reflection at all on real world performance.

Just as an after thought. I still have MSE on my Windows 7 machines. AVG detected a problem last summer with XP code in memory for a few days but scanning the disk did not detect any errors in any of the files did this every day till the memory error was no longer being reported.

I have not seen a problem like that with MSE but would not be surprised if something like that has happened at some time in the past or happens in the future. Comments violating those rules will be removed. Comments that don't add value will be removed, including off-topic or content-free comments, or comments that look even a little bit like spam.

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The article recommended that I quit using it immediately and switch to something else. What do you think? Do I need to stop using Microsoft Security Essentials? Do this Subscribe to Confident Computing! I'll see you there! Keep up the great work… Reply. My much trusted tech shop discovered 31 viruses. So not one rogue, but a major infestation.

Does that not fit better with the AV league tables. Pj Reply. SqueeMonkey Windows Defender in Vista, was not the same as in windows 8, which is essentially Microsoft security essentials. I also use Secunia PSI to keep my major software updated and reduce the chance of infection in the first place ;o Reply. You are right on!! I had exactly the same thoughts.

I will continue to use MSE until I find definitive info, but this is making me nervous. Thanks Leo, and also to all the contributors in this forum.

Posted Mar 16, PM. Reply Reply Privately Options Dropdown. Turning off MS Security Essentials resolves the issue. Is there anything l need to exclude? This is with no layers active.

Posted Mar 17, AM. We're finding some bad things with MSE installed as well, like Import taking freaking forever over an hour just for an acrobat reader 9 VSA. I'll get you up to date but chances are there's not going to be a quick fix for this. Posted Mar 17, PM. Posted Mar 22, PM. Posted Mar 23, PM. Posted Mar 24, AM. Posted Mar 24, PM. Can you tell me what programs you're seeing problems with, what the problems are, and if those apps are virtualized or not.

It shouldn't be a windows update, we've got non-AV machines as well as AV-machines that we regularly test with but I'm not sure if AVG is one since we tend to focus on corporate environments for our testing.

Web pages partially load and the browsers become upresponsive for upto 5 mins at a time. Posted Mar 25, AM. Thing were smooth weeks earlier. If that's the case file an issue via the beta feedback because there could be other issues causing the problem since that code is pretty different from 6. We've got four different code branches out right now SVS 2. If you're using 6. Posted Mar 25, PM. On my Windows 7 Professional 32 bit machine, l am running 6.