Norton AntiVirus VS ZoneAlarm With AntiVirus

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Conservative.Nate 21 years ago

I reformatted my laptop 2 days ago because it was running slow. I decided yesterday to purchase ZoneAlarm with AntiVirus. About 30 minutes ago I finally got around to installing Norton Systemworks Premier 2005. After I rebooted ZoneAlarm it tells me there is a conflict and it wants me to uninstall Norton AntiVirus.

The idea was to have both NAV and ZA with AV so if one did not catch a virus/worm the other would catch it.

I have already run Norton Liveupdate and it is doing a full system scan (Antivirus) now. When I check for updates with ZoneAlarm with Antivirus it tells me I am up to date.

Anyone know if ZoneAlarm with AntiVirus has all the same features as NAV 2005?

If I cannot use both (I still don't understand why ZA with AV won't start as long as NAV is installed) I am trying to figure out which is better for my PC.

I have:

Windows XP Home with SP2

2 GHz Celeron laptop with 1 gigabyte RAM ZoneAlarm with AntiVirus Version: 5.5.094.000 (Zonealarm) Antivirus Vet Engine version: 11.7.0.000 (ZoneAlarm) Antivirus signature DAT file version: 11.7.9145.000

Norton Systemworks 2005 Version 8.02 Build 6 Norton Antivirus Version 11.0.9.16 Norton Utilities Version 18.0.0.62

Any Help is Appreciated!

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Jerome M. Katz 21 years ago

There should be no problem having two anti-virus programs installed. You can do full system scans with both (one at a time), but you should have only one set to auto-protect as there will be conflicts if you run two auto-protects simultaneously.

Jerry

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jacktange 21 years ago

I had the same problem so switched to AVG and Sygate, AVG for Anti Virus and Sygate for Firewall. Found that other programs ofton give you conflicts, sometimes I feel we are being conned, Since running the above on WinME, have had no worries. Hope this helps as well. Jack

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