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jviggiano
2010-10-12, 19:42
Hi all. Sorry if this has been asked before, but I did a search and couldn't find anything.

Simple question, can you think of any disadvantages to running Spybot and Malwarebytes scans at the same time? It always seems to work fine, but I was wondering if there's anything I'm missing.
Perhaps it's better to run them one after the other or even reboot and THEN run another.

Thoughts?

Thank you!

Zenobia
2010-10-13, 03:37
Just my own opinion and what I do,but I always just run antimalware scanners one at a time,simply because with my own computer,running two scans would probably slow things down,and I want the scans done as fast as possible,without taxing the computer unnecessarily.Plus,I don't want to bother having two scanners searching for and possibly finding the same things,I'd rather run one scan,remove what it finds,then run another scan with the other antimalware scanner afterwards to see if anything different is found,if I feel that's necessary. :)