Can you have these running together?
I notice that if you have Defender on and then reboot Norton swiches off or prevents Defender from running,this wasn't the case with V2
I have Vista 32bit SP1.I removed V2 with the removal tool
That's curious, my installation on Vista didn't turn it off, and they are working together, oficially.
So far they seem to like each other.
I don’t like it either… when actually testing WD against stuff I find it pretty useless. Detection, protection, behaviour - all of it. Not good - no like.
Can you have these running together?
I notice that if you have Defender on and then reboot Norton swiches off or prevents Defender from running,this wasn't the case with V2
I have Vista 32bit SP1.I removed V2 with the removal tool
I have installed V3 on a Dell laptop (Vista 32bit SP1) and get the same problem.Defender is switched off on reboot and has to be manually enabled
If you want it to be enabled than you have to go into your hsitory , than go to the firewall history and you need to exclude WD from scanning
I have wondered about this too. On my XP Home SP3 internet computer, I had both installed, had to reinstall 360 V2, and the installer gave me a message saying it had found an incompatible program - Defender - and said it needed to be uninstalled before continuing with the 360 V2 installation.
I reinstalled Defender after getting 360 installed. Both programs do start scans without being told to. Defender's scans can be scheduled, but if I haven't had my computer on in a while, it will start scanning as soon as I start it up. And 360 usually looks for updates and may start scanning on its own. I don't imagine you'd want the two of them conducting scans simultaneously.
If it's possible to set Windows Defender to only scan manually ( I can't remember but that should be possible) rather than start scanning automatically, that might help.
I actually started having problems with my computer last weekend. They started during a Defender scan, but I can't be sure that Defender contributed to that.
I searched Symantec's site, but did not find anything directly stating whether there were incompatibilities between Defender and 360. Only that Defender should not be relied upon alone to protect your system from attacks.
As far as Vista, I have a relative running 360 V2 on a Vista 32 bit computer and it runs very smoothely, with Defender on the same computer. It runs smoother than on my XP computer!
Message Edited by Zathrus on 03-09-2009 10:08 AM
On both my laptop and desktop PC Defender only starts on about 25% of reboots the rest of the time it’s switched off
I would say that on only about 20% of reboots Defender is on (tested on both a desk top and lap top Vista machine)
I don’t think WD is possible if you have 360v3 running of course with more security program running will get more protection but for those low on ram and memory i suggest exclude WD from running cos 360v3 is more reliable than WD.