You will find users here that will argue to the death that it is OK to run both Norton and MBAM PRO together by changing some settings in MBAM.
As Dick noted, Security software companies advise against running more than one security program with real time scanning. The conflicts that can occur when both try to access, or deal with some possible malware at the same time, can actually reduce your protection level, and could even allow the malware into your system.
Stephen11, I agree with what the others have said. If you have Norton running you should not have ANY other realtime protection running. I have Malwarebytes and Superantispyware which is the Pro version, but I only use them as passive scanners. There is every chance there will be some kind of conflict, otherwise. Let Norton do its job.
I've posted some comments here about configuring MBAM PRO so that it doesn't interfere with NIS real-time protection.
If you're referring to the compatibility warning some users were seeing with NIS 20.3.0.36 (NIS 2013) and MBAM (see here), that issue was eventually resolved and I haven't seen any posts in the forum mentioning a similar bug with NIS 21.x (NIS 2014).
------------ MS Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP2 * Firefox 24.0 * IE 9.0 * NIS 2013 v. 20.4.0.40 * MBAM PRO 1.75.0.1300
And if the user were to experience problems, then what would you say to the person who followed your instructions? I agree with what Peter, Dick, Quad and F4E said, that would be more appropriate to install MBAM FREE.
And if the user were to experience problems, then what would you say to the person who followed your instructions?
Hi Sandro_cm:
I'm not sure what instructions you're referring to, but I've never heard of anyone who encountered a conflict when they disabled the real-time protection in MBAM PRO and used it to run on-demand and/or scheduled quick scans.
------------ MS Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP2 * Firefox 24.0 * IE 9.0 * NIS 2013 v. 20.4.0.40 * MBAM PRO 1.75.0.1300 HP Pavilion dv6835ca, Intel Core2Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83 GHz, 3.0 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
And if the user were to experience problems, then what would you say to the person who followed your instructions?
Hi Sandro_cm:
I'm not sure what instructions you're referring to, but I've never heard of anyone who encountered a conflict when they disabled the real-time protection in MBAM PRO and used it to run on-demand and/or scheduled quick scans.
------------ MS Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP2 * Firefox 24.0 * IE 9.0 * NIS 2013 v. 20.4.0.40 * MBAM PRO 1.75.0.1300 HP Pavilion dv6835ca, Intel Core2Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83 GHz, 3.0 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
Hi Imacri,
I don't need to read instructions in this regard, my thought, is identical to that of many other users, who use one scanner
that runs in real-time. Among other things, I don't see the need to "pay " for an additional scanner like MBAM PRO, and
then having to disable the most important part the product, namely "real-time protection".
For this reason I suggest to use MBAM FREE that would do the same job as MBAM PRO having the real-time protection disabled.
I'm interested since (a) I've used the free version of Malwarebytes on occasion just to double check my system, and (b) there was a NewEgg offer to get the Pro version fairly cheap. Based upon all of the discussion, I lean no but the door isn't yet shut.....
I should have stated "better PUP/Malware handling", because IMHO, they need to do a better job of handling this class of critter... Maybe they do in the v21 version; I hope so ... Time will tell. Their previous version's handling of these "nuisances" seemed to allow a lot of them past their forefront prevention. And then once past, their post ability to detect and remove them seemed to be pretty much "out the window" on fitness to task; again IMHO.