What sorts of complications can occur using two antivirus programs, such as McAfee and Avast? Would they cause a noticeable slowdown?

Do not try to use McAfee and avast. They do not like each other. When I tried to do that, I couldn't check my email in Eudora. Ash has told me that avast is much better than McAfee, ao you might want to just go with avast.

Jeremy

Hi again steelCity,
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You should not run more than one antivirus program on your computer. Because they scan most of the files on your computer, and each watch out for a program reading all files [often virus behavior] then you will see your computer generate false positives, as well as causing slowdowns and other problems due to conflicts. I strongly suggest that you uninstall MacaFee and leave Avast on your system.

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From how it sounds, I think he has McAfee now, but wants to get Avast. That's how I used to be. But my hard drive got wiped a few times over, so I got avast because my dad didn't install McAfee yet.

Thanks a lot, I'll definitely check out Avast, since that is the general consensus of the compuforum members.