Spybot 1.6/1.6.2 & McAfee Total Protection 2008/2009

[Dudeman]

Hello. I recently tried installing Spybot and McAfee on my computer together. I am running Vista Home Premium on this one. When, I installed it my computer started acting really weird and which basically led me to believe as if there's some sort of compatibility issue here, maybe? Well, when I installed both of them on my old computer running XP Home Edition, they worked perfectly fine together. So, I was hoping; would someone please explain to me what's wrong here?

[drragostea]

McAfee's the problem.
To bypass this, install Spybot-Search&Destroy after McAfee has been installed.

[Dudeman]

Yes, I tried that but still, same situation...

[drragostea]

Can you explain what was "weird"?

[Dudeman]

Well, after installing both, whenever I rebooted the system; my internet connection would stop working, a couple of my startup programs wouldn't load up, taskbar icons would disappear, and the computer would freeze up for a bit of time.

[Abdee]

The exact same problem happened to me along with crashes and extremely slow performance. I uninstalled Mcafee shortly after a few hours of freezes and blue-screens, it was a real nightmare. It was also really difficult to get rid of it, what a piece of junk!

[drragostea]

Sorry to hear of your problems.
I have an idea . Let's try a 'trial-and-error' method.

Can you uninstall McAfee and reboot the computer and see what happens then (I'm assuming you can install it and you'll still be subscribed with no problems)?

[Dudeman]

Well, after all the freezing up and everything, I just decided to do a recovery (opened thread after recovery). So, right now I don't have either programs on my computer. I don't want that to happen again, which is why I was asking about the compatibility.

[drragostea]

I doubt Spybot-Search&Destroy is the cause of your problems. Try reinstalling Spybot.

[Dudeman]

Reinstall Spybot without McAfee? One thing I noticed before that might be the problem, not sure...Since I installed McAfee first, I let it take over as my Security Center. After that, when installing Spybot, there's an option for Security Center integration I believe, I checked that. So, maybe that's why the two weren't getting along?