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[EagleHeart111]

Hi today i have another question. I'm protected in real - time by Norton Antivirus 2011, and Comodo Firewall, with Sandbox feature activated, and for SCANNING ONLY, Malwarebytes. is that right? or what steps shall i follow? i know only a product can run in real time protection.

[huwyngr Norton Fighter]

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Practice Safe Computing -- Think FIrst .......

The greatest danger to your computer lies between the left ear and the right ear of the user ..... 

I should know better but we just got an email from the "IRS" saying our check had been refused by our bank .... and I clicked on the enclosed PDF for details ...... even tho' it had an exe extenstion as well .....

Luckily either Norton protected me or the website had been shut down!

[mumford68]

It's my understanding that it is best not to have more than 1 firewall and not more than one real-time anti-virus program running at any given time.  I believe that is why Microsoft's firewall gets disabled when a Norton product that has a firewall running is in place but one still needs an a/v (hopefully real-time) program running.

I would think the programs for running a firewall and a/v are your choice. If you wish to continue using (I assume you are) NIS you can use anti-virus scanners such as Malwarebytes and they should not present an issue as long as they don't have the real-time feature enabled.

Take care,

Mumford68